Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Silverpoint is one of several types of metalpoint used by scribes, craftsmen and artists since ancient times. Metalpoint styli were used for writing on soft surfaces (wax or bark), ruling and underdrawing on parchment, and drawing on prepared paper and panel supports.
Kohen, Helen L., Silverpoint Makes for Golden Exhibit, The Miami Herald, 4/21/85 Langdon, Ann, The Creation Series, Art New England, December 1992 / January 1993 Langer, Cassandra, The Creation Series: 15 Years of Silverpoint, Women Artists News, Fall 1990
Joyce Reopel (1933–2019) was an American painter, draughtswoman and sculptor who worked in pencil, aquatint, silver- and goldpoint, and an array of old master media.A Boris Mirski Gallery veteran, from 1959 to 1966, [1] she was known for her refined skills and virtuosity.
Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (the title is modern) is a silverpoint drawing by Albrecht Dürer, dated 1484, when the artist was either twelve or thirteen years of age. It is now in the Albertina museum, Vienna , where it arrived, via the collections of the Imhoff family in Nuremberg and the Habsburg collections, from Dürer's own literary and ...
Leo Dee (July 8, 1931 – November 22, 2004) was an American artist and teacher. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he achieved first regional and then national prominence for his "incredibly detailed" and realistic silverpoint drawings which conveyed "the softest and most subtle transitions of tonal values."
Whiteley uses silverpoint as a drawing medium. The technique was widely used during the Italian Renaissance. She became fascinated by drawing with metal while an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her anatomy teacher, Paula Gerard, was a master of the technique of using a sterling silver stylus on a prepared ground.
In 2009, the one-person show Silver Linings: Delicate Drawings by Carol Prusa, took place at Polk Art Museum at Florida Southern College, an affiliate of the Smithsonian. [19] In 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville presented Coherent Structures: Recent Silverpoint Paintings by Carol Prusa. [ 20 ]
Thelma Ellen Wood (July 3, 1901 – December 10, 1970) was an American artist, specialising in the traditional fine line drawing technique known as Silverpoint.She was noted for her hectic private life, and her lesbian relationship with Djuna Barnes was fictionalized in Barnes' novel Nightwood.