cma-drawing: Head of a Screaming Man (recto) Woman and Man Playing Cards (verso), Benjamin West , 17
cma-drawing: Head of a Screaming Man (recto) Woman and Man Playing Cards (verso), Benjamin West , 1792, Cleveland Museum of Art: DrawingsAfter studying in Italy, Benjamin West achieved outstanding success in England, where he served as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and became a personal friend of King George III. West’s earliest paintings were classical and restrained in spirit, but in the 1780s, influenced by the writer Edmund Burke, he became interested in producing grand, terrifying compositions of destruction and apocalypse.Size: Sheet: 32.3 x 40.7 cm (12 11/16 x 16 in.)Medium: black crayonhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1967.130 -- source link
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