Wedding Under Bodice by Edna C. Rex

Wedding Under Bodice 1935 - 1942

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drawing, paper, pencil

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portrait

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drawing

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paper

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pencil

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watercolor

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realism

Dimensions: overall: 22 x 27.9 cm (8 11/16 x 11 in.)

Copyright: National Gallery of Art: CC0 1.0

Edna Rex made this drawing called Wedding Under Bodice, and well, it shows exactly that! The drawing is like a whisper, all soft peaches and creams, delicate pencil lines. It reminds me how much of art making is process. You can almost see Edna building up the form with these gentle strokes, trying to capture the way light plays on fabric. The texture is everything here - the subtle sheen of the material. It’s so thin in places, almost transparent, and you can see the ghost of the underdrawing beneath. There’s a little squared off drawing in the bottom left hand corner that is like a practice sketch for the main event. I love that she left it in! I think of someone like Agnes Martin, whose work is so quiet, but so full of intention. It all makes you think about the layers of meaning we project onto the simplest things.

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