Highboy c. 1937

Isadore Goldberg made this drawing of a Highboy, we're not sure when. I'm picturing Goldberg with a very fine brush, patiently building up these layers of color in watercolor and graphite. The final image is precise, but I'm imagining how it came into being, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition, like when I'm in the studio. What was it like for Goldberg, observing all the details of this large piece of furniture, translating 3D to 2D? What was he thinking? It's about seeing and then trying to figure out how to get that seeing down into the hand, right? I feel a kinship with Goldberg here, in this act of embodied expression. Every artist has their own way of seeing and expressing the world, it's like we're all in this conversation together, across time, inspiring each other.