F. Ernest Jackson ARA, Study of a woman's face

Study of a woman's face

F. Ernest Jackson ARA (1872 - 1945)

RA Collection: Art

A pencil sketch of a woman's face slightly tilted down. Jackson has shaded the woman's face using hatching and cross hatching to create a three dimensional drawing.

This work is from an album of drawings consisting of portraits and figure studies.

J. G. P. Delaney writes 'drawing, Jackson insisted, was not an imitation of nature an illusion of outside appearances nor a representation of the outlines of things, but an intellectual exercise, an interpretation of nature. "In figurative drawing" he said in one of his lectures, "the intention of the artist is to make a kind of explanatory diagram of the object drawn". Elsewhere, he wrote that the object of drawing "as to give the sense of solid form by means of line". Line did the work in a drawing: shading assisted it. He would encourage his students to "feel round" the form as if they were insects crawling round its contours.'

(Reference: Dr J.G.P. Delaney, F. Ernest Jackson and his school, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2000, p. 14)

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Object details

Title
Study of a woman's face
Artist/designer
F. Ernest Jackson ARA (1872 - 1945)
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Pencil on wove paper
Dimensions

195 mm x 120 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
18/3165
Acquisition
Given by Mrs Margaret Bear 9 March 2015
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