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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

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

Highlights from this shop that sells work by local artists include Heidi Chamberlain’s folksy linoleum print cards and Ben Thurber’s pen-and-ink sketches of rural Vermont life.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

Conversely, a tiny pen-and-ink fellow holding skis shows up on a hill of snowy moguls plunked into nearby Prague as refugees from Sudetenland stream past Vera’s school and house in her subtly darkened watercolor town.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2021

Each looked exactly like a pen-and-ink outline sketch of a man on a horse.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III




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