The Creek Hotel
Brian DeGraw
American, born 1974
(2003)
A felt‑tip pen on paper portrait that brings a bearded face suddenly close, as if the artist wanted to capture an immediate, unfiltered glimpse of character.
What hits you is the extreme close crop: large, alert eyes behind round glasses and a heavily hatched beard rendered in grainy, urgent strokes that make the face feel both familiar and intense.
It belongs to a contemporary impulse to celebrate direct, handmade mark‑making—using bold, everyday materials to reclaim portraiture’s intimacy and resist the coolness of photographic realism.
Medium
Felt-tip pen on paper
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 5 1/2" (21.6 x 14 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1547.2005
Palette
Exhibitions
