Set aside THE POST
headline title for the new Morgan Library (Manhattan) show of a drawings trove
that will literally knock your socks off.
M and I went there
the day before Thanksgiving, and I had many moments alone before small masterpiece
after small masterpiece.
A taste from Victor
Hugo’s “Fantastic Castle at Twilight”:
“[He] spilled ink
onto the page; by tilting the sheet, dipping his pen in the wet ink, and
leaving white reserve of paper to form a stark contrast to the ink-soaked
patches, he invented . . . ”
Happy (US) Thanksgiving
!
