Settee 1935 - 1942

This is a Settee by George Loughridge, a drawing, but it makes me think about painting! I’m looking at the gentle washes of color, the way the artist coaxes form out of the white paper. It’s like they're feeling their way through the structure, bit by bit. You know, sometimes the most interesting thing about a piece is how it reveals its making. I can imagine Loughridge considering line and tone, adding layers to create the textures of the wood and the woven cane. There’s something so appealing about the quiet dedication it must have taken to render this scene so meticulously. Each stroke seems like a little meditation on shape and space. It reminds me of the way Agnes Martin worked, with a similar kind of understated rhythm. Artists, we're all in this ongoing conversation, looking and learning from one another. We build on what came before. We find new ways to see.