Untitled

Untitled

Larry Rivers

1961

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch shows a rough, black-and-white scene of a car and a building. The car’s shape is simple—just circles for wheels and a long hood—but the lines are messy, like they were drawn fast. The building behind it looks like a window with blurry shapes inside, almost like a smudged memory. The artist left the edges uneven, like the paper was torn or the ink bled. It feels unfinished on purpose, more like a quick doodle than a polished drawing. Check out how this was made using lithography.

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