1964
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1964 graphite by Joseph E. Yoakum, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This drawing shows three big, rounded mountains with sharp ridges. The lines are dark and thick, making the shapes pop against a light tan background. Tiny cross-like marks fill the slopes, giving them texture. The artist used only a ballpoint pen and pencil on colored paper. The mountains look almost like waves or folds of cloth, not quite real. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists build texture with lines.
Joseph Elmer Yoakum was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American–descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was age 76 when he…
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