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(Below) Photograph showing a view of the galleries installed for the
Note: The following discussion is adapted from correspondence with composer Roger Reynolds, whose music I admire. I thank Roger for his interest in my art and for h...
Views of the World For many years I've kept framed prints by Andreus Cellarius hanging at either side of my studio window. The...
(Above) Photograph of drawing table with Landscape in Graphite II (work in progress) 5 x 12', graphite on Fabriano paper. This drawing has been executed in pencil and powdered gr...
(Above) Photograph of the artist at the window with his temporary painting table in Philadelphia.
A Window on Philadelphia
The exhibition of
Photograph of the artist's journals, Book 123 through Book 132, 2004 - 2009. The foreground journal is open to a study for
Beach Walk, Part 1; Book 132 Pages 58 and 59.
Beach Walk, Part 2; Book 132 Pages 60 and 61.
Beach Worktable 2006.
Beach Bulletin Board 2006
Each summer I return to the family beach house in North Carol...
(above): Spring Twilight, graphite on Fabriano paper, (work in progress) with (from left) sanding block, plastic eraser with cut fragment, hard gray grinding eraser, white plastic eraser refill and electri...
(above) Charles Ritchie, Astronomical Chart, Bowl, and Candles, (work in progress), watercolor and graphite on Fabriano paper, 4 x 6″
Dreams and Images
A Hunt in the Forest
A few years ago I sifted through family photograph...
Charles Ritchie, Journal entries for 15-16 January, Book...
Photograph of drawing table on 10 January 2009 with Spring Twilight (above) and Night with O...
Charles Ritchie, Interior/Exterior, 1987-198...
The new print project is complete. We have a final proof that will be used as the model for printing the editions. Jim Stroud, printer and producer for the project, shifted to a bone black prin...
Trial Proofs for the Accordion Print Project, etching and aq...
Photograph of studio table with plate 1 for the...
Photograph of the installation of the exhibition From the Inside Lo...
The Bend, 1984, watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on Fabriano paper, 3 5/...
Charles Ritchie, two uncatalogued paintings, (left) Paper Whi...
Charles Ritchie, Guitar, 1992-1994, watercolor, graphite and pen and ink on Fabriano pa...
Works in Progress
As I keep so many projects going at one time, I thought it might be re...
Turning Pages: Part 1
below: Page: Interior with Stack of Journals (unfinished first version), 2007-2008, watercolor and graphite on Fabriano paper, 4 x 6″
New Print Project: Part 4
Our first task when I arrived at Center Street Studio was to transfer my drawings with inscriptions photographically to film positives. Here Jim Stroud trims one of the f...
Photograph of artist Charles Ritchie in front of t...
Charles Ritchie, trial proof for Accordion Print, 2008, etching on wove paper, sheet size: 13 x 10 1/4″. A ...
(above) Charles Ritchie, Night with Orion (work in progress, 27 March 2008), 11 1/4...
(above) Photograph of the artist’s drawing and writing on clear Mylar featuring a pen and ink study after
(above) Charles Ritchie, Two Journals, 2005, watercolor, graphite, and pen and...
Self-Portrait with Night XI: Graphite, first...
Figure 1. Digital photograph of the north wall of the artist’s studio displaying a Celestia...
above, Book 2, 1978, undated entry with notes taken on a night bus ride.
below, Book 129, Fall ...
Two Figures, 2007, graphite on wove paper in ring-bound sketchboo...
Bedside notebook with jotted dream fragments, 2007, page size 5 x 3″
