pen-and-ink
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Booth’s pen-and-ink sketches often depicted farcical domestic settings, such as a dog deliriously rolling on a kitchen floor and a frazzled looking husband and wife at a table nearby.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022
Mr. Booth’s pen-and-ink cartoons were collected in a dozen books, reproduced as artworks and sold in galleries.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022
She said she had found Sydney Arrobus was a London-born artist who was known for his pen-and-ink portraits, of which several hang in the National Portrait Gallery.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022
Also on Knight’s docket: an exhibition of work by Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth, which includes the artist’s scathing pen-and-ink drawings of Richard Nixon from the 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2019
There are no confirmed sketches from Maria’s early years, but this 1669 pen-and-ink drawing is often attributed to her.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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