Martin Ramirez

The New York Times featured one of my favorite Martin Ramirez' drawings today: it was made in crayon on pasted together bits of paper, and it's incredible. Here's the NY Times' analysis of the painting, which comes from this article. Here's another one. The man's a genius.




Martin Ramirez, Courtyard, 1953 (ink and crayon on paper, Petullo Collection, Milwaukee)