Arnold William Brunner, American, - Two Sketches, Corbel and Waterfall - 1887–88 - T-Shirt

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Arnold William Brunner, American, - Two Sketches, Corbel and Waterfall - 1887–88 - T-Shirt

Two pencil studies sit side by side on a single sheet: a carved wooden corbel on a building and a waterfall tumbling over rocks.

Visual Elements & Composition

The drawing is built in graphite pencil with white chalk highlights on a warm kraft-tan ground, with graphite gray doing most of the work in the shadows. The sheet is rectangular with clipped corners, and two sketch vignettes divide it. One shows the wooden corbel in close, careful detail. The other shows the waterfall spilling over rocks, with a rocky stream bank, a bare sapling and a fallen branch in the water around it. The handwritten notes "Aug. 19." and "Wooden Corbel" sit on the sheet as working annotations.

Meaning & Symbolism

Arnold William Brunner was a prominent American architect, known for civic buildings, synagogues and urban planning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pairing a load-bearing architectural detail with falling water shows the range of observation behind period design. The corbel stands for the built world, and the waterfall for the natural forms that informed architectural decoration. The studies record the preparatory habits that stood behind his professional work during this period of American design.

Why It Suits This Tee

These sketches are drawn at a close, observational scale, and a tee carries them the same way: they sit on the chest, where the eye settles on the rock, the water and the carved wood at arm's length. The pale chalk highlights and soft graphite lines read as hand-drawn marks across the fabric, so the study looks like a page from a sketchbook worn in everyday wear.

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