Old Master Studies & Copies

~ Graphite pencil and charcoal drawings ~
~ Studies and copies of Leonardo da Vinci, Durer, Albinus, Michelangelo, Rembrandt,
Frederick Lord Leighton, Rodin, and ancient Greek vases and sculpture ~

pencil drawing of skeleton, after Bernard Siegfried Albinus

Study of Bernard Siegfried Albinus's "Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani, 1747, Plate 1," 2000. Pencil on paper, 9" x 12". $195.

Head of the Twelve-Year-Old Christ, After Albrecht Durer, pencil drawing.

Study of Albrecht Durer's Head of the Twelve-Year-Old Christ, 2010. Pencil on paper, 9" x 12". $95.

Head of a Man, After Leonardo da Vinci; pencil drawing

Head of a Man, After Leonardo da Vinci, 2000. Pencil on paper, 4 1/2 x 3". $125.

Two Heads, After Leonardo da Vinci; pencil drawing

Two Heads, After Leonardo da Vinci, 2000. Pencil on paper, 4 x 4 1/2". $125.

charcoal drawing of woman, after Frederick Lord Leighton

Study of Frederick Lord Leighton's Standing Nude Figure, Seen from Behind, 1998. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $95.

After Michelangelo, 1998. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $95.

After Rodin's Sculpture of Eve, 1998. Charcoal on paper, 14 x 11". $65.

After Rodin's Sculpture of a Head, 1998. Charcoal on paper, 14 x 11". $45.

After Michelangelo's Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, 1997. Pencil on paper, 11" x 14". $65.

After a Pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, "Head," 1997. Pencil on paper, 9" x 10". $65.

Women in Antiquity (from Ancient
Greek Vases & Sculpture), 1988.
Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $125.
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"Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen."

--Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

...I thought, if I could draw my paines,
Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay.
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

--John Donne (1572-1631), from "The Triple Foole"

"...Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul."

--W. Somerset Maugham

"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope."

--Romans 15:4

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

"The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals."

--Samuel Davies (1723-1761)

"Art is the signature of civilization."

--Beverly Sills (1929-__), interview in 1985

"You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove that your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriages, your birth-control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains -- can prove to you that these are characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient states -- Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome."

--Oswald Spengler in Decline of the West (1926)