These vibrant watercolors (including "Drawing: Wonder Fish," above) reflect the culture of 18th-century Germanic immigrants, who carried to the New World the custom of illuminating documents with Gothic lettering (known as fraktur), drawings and borders.
"Write a letter, coaxed tidy little signs in the post offices throughout th land; "Write the whole damn family," implied a series of l little drawings around their borders.
Drawings of cattle border the page.
This is a big problem because, in effect, the most sensational aspect of the drawings lies beyond their borders.
The drawings, mounted with fabric borders to suggest Asian-style scroll paintings, consist of varying numbers of cut-out inkblots, mostly black, in the form of differently sized and shaped leaves.
José, 5, a child who was separated from his father at the United States border, keeps drawings of his family.
Two physicians chose to use a pen tablet (CTH-661, Wacom, Taiwan), and the others chose to use their own mouse as a pointing and border-drawing device.
The 10 scholars she has enlisted to participate in the catalog revisit old conundrums (Leonardo's left-handedness) and new ones (his use of drawn frames and borders within his drawings as a way to compress and contain his "brainstorming").
We see William Chambers' cunning attempt to stand out from the cacophony of the Royal Academy's Annual Exhibition by framing his drawings with a bright blue border.
Draw several gesture drawings.
As a series of similarly bordered, skittery, black ink drawings on paper inspired by the calligraphy of a Sung dynasty letter suggests, this framing device is meant to evoke the Chinese practice of mounting drawings on larger pieces of fabric for formal display.
