A Corpus of Cotzumalhuapa-Style Sculpture, Guatemala

Advances in Drawing

Pencil drawings are made on the basis of photographic enlargements. Before inking, the majority of drawings are checked against the original monument. The exceptions are monuments located in private collections, where no access is possible. For example, Vista Linda Monument 1, shown below, was drawn on the basis of a slide made by Dr. Frederick Bove in 1991. No further access has been obtained to the private collection where the monument is located, making it impossible to check the drawing for errors. No particular scale is being employed. Instead, photographs are enlarged to a size that is considered suitable for detailed drawing, which varies according to the sculpture’s size and iconographic detail.

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Copies of 42 final drawings produced to date are included in the Annex. Fourteen additional monuments have been drawn in pencil, and have already been checked with the originals, but remain unfinished. Besides the priorities indicated in the Annex, no particular order has been followed in preparing these drawings. Finished drawings include many monuments from peripheral sites in addition to those from the Nuclear Zone sites of Bilbao and El Baúl.

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