Andy Warhol

James Wyeth

(1976)

A quietly observant profile portrait executed in gouache, watercolor, and pencil, made to record the sitter’s likeness and presence with restrained, careful detail.

What will strike you is the tiny, pale-haired profile tucked into the lower-left of a wide, warm paper ground—the precise white highlights, delicate pencil work, and a few ink splatters give the solitary figure an uncanny clarity against empty space.

By combining meticulous draftsmanship with an almost empty field, the drawing links realist portrait tradition to a modern, minimalist compositional sensibility that makes a single figure feel both intimate and emblematic.

Palette

Art Terms

Drawing Gouache Watercolor Pencil Portrait Figure/ground relationship Figurative

Exhibitions

American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

1969

American Prints, 1960–1985

1987

76 Jefferson

1975

Contemporary Drawings

1984