Sexism Study #25 1973

Benny Andrews made this drawing, *Sexism Study #25*, with what looks like graphite or ink on paper. You know, when I look at it, I see the artist’s hand moving, searching, making these tentative lines… The artist might be trying to figure something out. I can imagine them, puzzling over some thorny topic like sexism, trying to visualize what it looks like. Maybe it’s a landscape, maybe it’s a couple of oddball figures climbing a mountain. The beauty of drawing, right? You can take an idea and work through it stroke by stroke. When I think about how one drawing connects to another, to other drawings, it’s like one long, beautiful conversation through time. What one artist does inspires another, and in the end, you’ve got this amazing language of art, a way of talking that never really ends and keeps changing all the time.