Studies 1890 - 1946

This sheet of studies by Cornelis Vreedenburgh, probably made with graphite, feels like a quiet conversation with the artist’s own thoughts. I imagine Vreedenburgh walking through the city, sketchbook in hand, quickly capturing impressions and ideas as they come. Look at the scribbled notes mixed with architectural forms and numerical codes. It’s as if he’s mapping out not just the physical space but also the mental landscape of his artistic process. The lines are tentative, searching, like he's feeling his way through the subject. There’s a real intimacy here, a sense of being allowed into the artist’s private world of experimentation. It reminds me of Cy Twombly’s notebooks, where writing and drawing blur together into a kind of visual poetry. Artists are always in dialogue, riffing off one another's ideas and approaches. Vreedenburgh's studies invite us to embrace that ambiguity, to see the beauty in the unresolved, and to find our own meanings within the artist's wandering lines.