Untitled (Wave Drawing)
c. 1955
20th Century
19 in. x 25 in.
Sewell Sillman,
American,
(1921–1992)
Object Type:
Work on Paper
Medium and Support:
ink on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Sewell Sillman Foundation
Accession Number:
2009.11.2
Original Inventory Number: D-039/039
This intensely complicated drawing features Sillman’s barbed lines erupting from
the center of the composition. Circular voids are created as the line rises, falls, and
doubles back upon itself. The web?like top line is strained to the point of rupture by
the tension building below.