Ellen Eagle’s self-portrait, Each Time, and Again in now on view in Face to Face: Artists’ Self-Portraits from the Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., at the Baker Museum.
Sherry Camhy explores historical and contemporary concepts of pastel drawing and painting in “Pastel Pointers, Past and Present,” an article in the Summer 2014 issue of Drawing magazine.
In the second floor hallway of the Metropolitan Museum, the opening wall text of Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe describes the physical components of pastel and concludes with the phrase “this little understood medium.” Juxtaposed on the adjacent wall are over-life-sized photographs of the pastel-making process. These gripping introductions to the Metropolitan Museum’s first pastel…