Decor appears collaged in architectural drawings where only the salient details are included.
"In the archives there are some old visionary drawings where we envision notes coming out of the brain directly.
But it's in the drawings where you see most clearly the influence of Ruskin, as well as Richards's affinity with the English Pre-Raphaelites championed by Ruskin.
Mr. Duddle's approach involved hundreds of rough drawings, where everything was up for grabs and ideas could take shape from there.
Steinberg came closest to candid self-portrayal in later drawings, where he assumed the persona of a cat, in the family of the sainted Papoose.
And abstraction takes on a kind of cool, new cosmic poetry in Julie Mehretu's drawings, where colored forms drift over panoramas of quaking landscapes and splintered architecture.
The only misstep is the requisite wall of pinned-up drawings, where nothing passes muster except the studies for the sculptures.
Nancy Webb had a long and productive life as an artist: art director for Noonday Press in the 50s; children's book author and illustrator; and sculptor whose sculptures and drawings where widely exhibited and collected.
