Drawings into prints, and prints into drawings: on view at the Getty

First this way, and then that “Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850” by Bondo Wyszpolski “The Holy Family with Saint Joseph Holding a Rose” (ca. 1591), by Bartholomeus Spranger; pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper, incised for transfer 8 3/4 × 6 7/16 in. (22.2 × 16.3 cm); Getty MuseumMaybe I’m presuming, but I doubt that many people give much thought to the reciprocal relationship between drawings and prints. But for those inclined to, well, the J. Paul Getty Museum has an exhibition that goes into considerable depth and detail on the subject. It’s an international loan with some 70 works, organized by the Getty with the Art Institute of Chicago, and you can see it now through Sept. 14. So what exactly are we talking about? Reading the accompanying catalogue may help: “According to conventional definitions, a drawing is typically considered a unique object and is the product of marks directly made by hand on the surface of the support. These marks can be either executed in chalk, ink, or other materials, or impressed into the sheet with an implement like a blind stylus. By contrast, a print…

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