8/11/01
Carroll Dunham
American, born 1949
2001
A small graphite-on-paper sketch in which Carroll Dunham arranges playful, biomorphic shapes, tree- and architecture-like marks, and lively hatching to blur the line between figure and environment.
What strikes you is the energetic pencil rhythm—rounded, amoeba-like contours nestle against crisply hatched rectangles while raindrop motifs and simplified trees punctuate a scene that feels simultaneously cartoonish and mapped.
The drawing condenses Dunham’s practice of turning quick, doodle-like gestures into a hybrid language that links comic imagery with modernist abstraction, showing how informal studies can generate new formal possibilities.
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
4 3/4 x 5 1/8" (12 x 13 cm)
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Credit
Purchase
Accession
95.2004
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