Landschap en een toren, mogelijk in Wangen im Allgäu 1921 - 1923

This is George Hendrik Breitner's sketch of a landscape and a tower, possibly in Wangen im Allgäu. The medium is graphite on paper. I love how Breitner uses the minimal amount of marks to denote the landscape. The tower itself is so skeletal, it has a provisional feeling. Look at the bottom of the tower, at those lines representing the field – see how they’re not quite parallel? The tower sits on them, slightly awkward, like a kid wearing their dad’s shoes. The physical act of drawing like this – almost scribbling – opens up possibilities. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's sketches. You can see him thinking, questioning. It’s this incompleteness that invites us in, asking us to finish the work.