Despite the fact that Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) had a long and distinguished and productive career as an artist and a teacher, what interests me now that I have a very narrow focus is this image of a window opening out onto Bryant Park. And what interests me particularly are the mix of charcoal and pencil and the minimal and implied depiction of the window frame, especially the narrow vertical pencil line indicating the left edge of the window frame, and the way the lines at the bottom of the frame do not all extend to the edges of the vertical lines indicating the sides of the window frame. Also the economy of detail used in indicating the mechanism for adjusting the window opening.
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