AMERICAN

ARTIST

Drawing

SUMMER 2008

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CONTENTS
4 Editors Note
5 Contributors
6 Sketchbook
16 Benjamin Wests Quick and Curious Rise
BY BOB BAHR

For about 50 years, England looked to a largely

untutored man from the American colonies to lead its
art scene. A show last spring at the Woodmere Art
Museum helped illuminate the mystery and mastery of
Benjamin West through his drawings.

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Drawing Magazine Cover Competition Winners

We chose 10 finalists for our Drawing Magazine Cover
Competitionand then easily named William Rose the
winner, as he best showcased the skill level and
imagination of our readers.

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The Intelligent Line of Albrecht Drer

BY JOHN A. PARKS

A genius emerged from a world of medieval

craftsmen to become the greatest artist of the
Northern Renaissance.
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Flight, Food, and Form

BY KENNETH J. PROCTER

Birds have represented many things to humans

throughout the ages, but as artists depictions
suggest, they usually mean freedom, flight, and
foodand a challenge for the draftsman.

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Understanding Anatomy: The Brow

BY DAVID JON KASSAN

The eye and brow ridge area is where the face displays
most of its expression, so it is important for artists to
have a good grasp of how to portray the natural
physiognomy of this area of the model.

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70 The Fine Line: A Close Look at Five

Contemporary Silverpoint Drawers

Rossinas Apple
(detail)

BY EPHRAIM RUBENSTEIN

by William Rose, 2007,

charcoal on museum
board, 28 x 20.
Collection the artist.

Because silverpoint drawings invite us to come

close and examine them carefully, here is a closeup look at several masterful contemporary
silverpoint drawings.
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COVER

Capturing a Criminal Versus Capturing

a Likeness
BY NAOMI EKPERIGIN

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Washington State artist Greg Bean discovered a love

and aptitude for drawing while working as a
forensic artist for the police department. His
exploration of drawing provided him with not only a
means of improving his work as a detective but also
a new way of seeing the world.
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Figures, Backgrounds, and the Prodigious

Talent of Kent Bellows
BY LISA DINHOFER

Omaha artist Kent Bellows was a masterful

draftsman who took the time to contemplate a
vision and complete works that would endure past
his untimely death.
106 Drawing Bodies
BY BOB BAHR

Draftsmen gathered at the Manhattan venue for

BODIESThe Exhibition last year to draw the
specimens on display. The best of them were
named finalists in a special competition cosponsored by the exhibition and Drawing
magazine.
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