Andrew Kersey wrote an article for Getty Research Institute titled The Afterlives of Artworks: How a single ink spot—among other important clues—led to an international collaboration to identify a lost drawing hidden in Getty’s collections (8 June 2026)
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Artists use a variety of pencils to get different marks.
2H pencil is hard, 4H pencil is harder, etc.
2B pencil is soft, 4B is softer, etc.
So why aren’t they called H and S pencils?
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