Armchair 1941

Robert Taylor made this drawing of an armchair sometime in the 20th century. I love the texture he’s created with what looks like watercolor, and the way the light catches the chair. I can almost feel Robert carefully observing every detail of the object in front of him. What was it like to sit on it? What was it like to look at it every day? He must have thought it was very special to spend so much time representing it in painstaking detail. There's something so beautiful about the humble act of noticing and then trying to recreate something with your own hands. It reminds me that artists are always looking, always learning from each other across time. Each brushstroke is like a little question mark, inviting us to pause and ask, "What do I see? What do I feel? What does this mean to me?"