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Then I looked at the original pen-and-ink drawings, and actually, spatially, I did exactly what Wagner did.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

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

Sheila Caberwal was serving on the stall at St Nicholas' Church in Little Bowden, Leicestershire, when she found the pair of pen-and-ink portraits.

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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