Jack Common Spring Entering
Alan Saret
American, born 1944
1983
A small, spare colored-pencil and graphite drawing in which Saret concentrates looping, hairlike strokes to evoke a sprout of movement—a gesture that reads like both plant and breath.
A narrow column of greens and yellows anchors the center while thousands of thin, translucent graphite lines fan and curl outward like wind-tossed grass, creating a delicate, suspended motion against the wide white field.
Exemplifying Saret’s process-oriented practice, the work treats line as recorded action and sculptural presence, helping to push late-20th-century drawing beyond representation into performative, object-like mark-making.
Medium
Colored pencil and pencil on paper
Dimensions
30 3/8 x 42 1/2" (77.2 x 108.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Seymour M. Klein, President
Accession
396.1984
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