Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: In the Crowd

Two lumpy cut-out figures turn their backs on a crowd of pencil faces.

This work on paper is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 1997. It is paint & mixed media on paper. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. Between them, faint blue-gray pencil faces cluster in a crowd. Black speckles and a scribbled blue mark dot the ground. It is 7 inches wide and 5 high.

A crowd scene staged with maximum economy and zero extras.