Exchange: Drawing: Observation Paper Study room visit

Drawing: Observation Paper Study room visit

A long-stem wine glass is seen brightly lit from above and set against a dark, undescribed background. The glass stands on a shallow footed metal tray.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Wine Glass
etching on white laid paper
8 3/16 in. x 6 5/8 in. ( 20.8 cm x 16.8 cm )
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

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A seated woman in a long dress and hat sits in profie reading. Her body is positioned looking towards the left. Behind the figure is broad diagonal hatching lines that create a sense of space while leaving the specific setting undescribed. At the lower right is a "butterfly" signature of the artist.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Reading
lithograph with scraping on china paper, laid down on white wove paper
21 5/8 x 15 in. (54.9 x 38 cm);8 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (21.4 x 16.5 cm);21 5/8 x 15 in. (54.9 x 38 cm);22 1/16 x 18 1/8 in. (56 x 46 cm)
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker

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A French town, with houses along a canal or river in the foreground extends in the distance showing rooflines and towers under a blustery sky.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Vitré—The Canal
transfer lithograph with stumping on laid paper
13 1/16 in x 8 5/16 in (33.2 cm x 21.1 cm);13 1/16 in x 8 5/16 in (33.2 cm x 21.1 cm);22 1/16 in x 18 1/8 in (56 cm x 46 cm)
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker

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This print shows a platter with two quinces and a bunch of grapes. Some of the grapes are spilling off of the tray and onto a cloth like surface.

George Constant
Quince and Grapes
drypoint on paper
12 1/16 in x 15 1/16 in (30.64 cm x 38.26 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects

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This black chalk drawing on gray-blue prepared laid paper is vertically oriented. The piece is a still life of the contents of a pantry portrayed within a lightly indicated arched niche. A rabbit and a fowl hang upside-down from a string, dominating the composition. Below them are, from left to right, two vessels, a prepared fowl, long root vegetables, and a wicker basket. <br />

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Le Garde-Manger
black chalk, heightened with white on gray-blue prepared laid paper
13 3/8 in. x 10 1/16 in. ( 34 cm x 25.5 cm )
Gift of the Friends of the Museum of Art in honor of Miss Helen B. Hall

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Jean-Émile Laboureur
Still Life
etching and drypoint on paper
7 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in (19.68 cm x 23.81 cm);14 1/4 in x 19 1/4 in (36.2 cm x 48.89 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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Susanna Linburg
Still Life
soft-ground etching and aquatint on paper
29 7/8 in. x 22 in. ( 75.9 cm x 55.9 cm )
Gift of the Michigan Workshop of Fine Prints

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A pencil drawing of a vase containing a bouquet of flowers. The flowers appear to be a mix of lillies and irises.

Robert Wilbert
Gladolia Bouquet
pencil on paper
30 1/4 in. x 22 3/8 in. ( 76.84 cm x 56.83 cm )
Gift in honor of Robet J. Yassin distinguished alumnus and former directorof the Indianapolis and Tucson Museum of Art

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Eugène Delacroix
Expulsion of Adam and Eve
graphite on medium, slightly textured blued white laid paper
12 3/16 in x 7 13/16 in (30.96 cm x 19.84 cm);19 3/8 in x 14 1/2 in (49.21 cm x 36.83 cm)
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family

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