METALPOINT DRAWINGS IN FIVE-COLLEGE MUSEUM
COLLECTIONS
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Ercole Cartotto
American, born in Italy (1889-1946)
Robert Frost (1874-1963), 1938
silverpoint on off-white prepared board
Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 3/8 in (50.1 x 39 cm)
Commissioned by the College
AC POR.1938.7
Ercole Cartotto
American, born in Italy (1889-1946)
Howard Percival Gallinger, Class of 1893, n.r.
silverpoint on off-white prepared board
Sheet: 20 9/16 x 16 in (52.2 x 40.6 cm)
Commissioned by the College
AC POR.1938.8
Ernest Haskell
American (1876-1925)
Silverpoint Sketchbook with Stylus, ca. 1900 -1910
sketchbook with blue cloth-covered cardboard covers, black leather spine and corners with gold trim,
black cloth strap and black leather stylus sleeve
sketchbook is incomplete, with eight pages remaining; thirteen pages with drawings
Techniques: silverpoint, graphite and ink
Overall: 4 x14 in (10.2 x 35.6 cm)
Gift of Josephine Haskell Aldridge in memory of Richard Aldridge (Class of 1952)
AC 1996.472.a,b
Smith College Museum of Art
Dieric Bouts
Early Netherlandish (ca. 1415 - 1475, active Leuven [Louvain] by 1457)
Portrait of a Young Man, Late 1460s – 1470s
silverpoint on ivory prepared paper mounted on paper with several later touches in graphite laid down
on stiff paperboard
Mount: 8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in (20.9 x 16.9 cm); Sheet: 5 7/16 x 4 1/4 in (13.8 x 10.8 cm)
Purchased with the Drayton Hillyer Fund
SC 1939:3
Ercole Cartotto
American (born Italy 1889 - 1946)
Family Group, 1929
Silverpoint on paper
Paperboard: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 in (48.9 x 39.4 cm)
Gift of Ercole Cartotto
SC 1931:5-2
Mount Holyoke Museum of Art
Otto Dix
German (1891-1969)
Nude
silverpoint drawing
Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
MH 1991.4.208