The Chazen owns over 200 drawings done between 1900 and 2000. The main subgroup consists of 118 pencil drawings by Antoine Pevsner. The others include drawings executed in graphite, silverpoint, pen and ink, charcoal, a few pastels, and watercolors. Of these, over 70 are by European artists, 24 by Americans.

The majority of the artists represented, with such notable exceptions as George Bellows and N. C. Wyeth, worked in the latter half of the 20th century. They include Judy Pfaff, Louise Bourgeois, Bernar Venet, Arakawa, Sandro Chia, Don Nice, Robert Stackhouse, Andy Goldsworthy, and Dimitri Prigov. Several groups of drawings are by artists such as John Wilde and John Steuart Curry who have had a special connection with the University of Wisconsin. An emerging focus in the collection is drawings by sculptors including David Smith, Seymour Lipton, Theodore Roszak, and Julio Gonzales.

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