Chair 1935 - 1942

This drawing of a chair, in Fairfield, Connecticut, is made with red ink on paper. It's a bit diagrammatic and has that lovely, old-fashioned, technical drawing feel. I can imagine the artist, bent over the paper, carefully measuring and marking, trying to capture the essence of the object and show how a chair is made. All those little lines and annotations feel so considered. It reminds me of technical drawings and old instruction manuals. You can feel the hand of the artist, meticulously drafting each line and curve. It’s got this wonderful balance between precision and something more human, an almost scribbly quality. This piece, though unsigned, speaks to me of artistic practice as an act of careful consideration, of trying to understand and represent the world around us, a conversation across time about making, building, and seeing.