Sketchbook, with preparatory sketches for Jazz Band, Sword Drill, and Clive Brook

Lill Tschudi

1930 · Watercolor, pencil, and gouache · Drawings and Prints

Tschudi’s sketchbook gives tremendous insight into her working process in preparing the print titled Sword Drill. The soldier standing at the right edge of the watercolor composition has been pasted in, cut from among the iterations in graphite on the opposite page, and enhanced with color. The compression and repetition of the lunging soldiers in a diagonal line that appears to extend infinitely into the distance brings a dynamic sense of movement to the work.

Artist

Lill Tschudi

Date

1930

Medium

Watercolor, pencil, and gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, Peco Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019