Some pieces going up at Harvard Art Museums' exhibition "Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black."
Odilon Redon, Chimera, 1880–95. Charcoal and black crayon with smudging, scraping, and erasing on buff wove paper.
Erwin Spuler, Untitled (As the Fire Fell from the Sky), c. 1945/6. Black chalk on white wove paper.
Lotte Laserstein, Triple Self-Portrait, c. 1928. Graphite on cream wove paper.
William Michael Harnett, Profile Portrait of a Girl, 1881. Charcoal with touches of white chalk on buff wove paper.
Georges Pierre Seurat, Woman Seated by an Easel, c. 1884–88. Conté crayon on beige wove paper.
Max Beckmann, Seated Woman Shading Her Face, 1949. Charcoal and black chalk on off-white modern laid paper.
John Singer Sargent, Kneeling Male Nude with Drapery, c. 1890–1915. Charcoal with erasure and smudging on blue modern laid paper.