Chalk is an inorganic material composed of calcium carbonate. It is naturally occurring, but has also been produced industrially throughout the twentieth century.
Chalk
Chalk is a soft powdery white or off-white writing or drawing material in crayon form, generally used on a blackboard or other dark surface
Selected artworks in the collection
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Juan Gris The Sunblind
1914 -
Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi Eros and Psyche
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Thomas Gainsborough Wooded Landscape with Peasant Asleep and Horses outside a Shed
c.1775–80 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sea
c.1844–5 -
John Downman Thomas Williams, a Black Sailor
1815 -
John Golding Drawing 85/8
1985 -
Alfred Stevens Study for a Seated Woman Gazing at ‘Magog Thrown into the Sea’, for Dorchester House
c.1860 -
Wyndham Lewis Girl Reclining
c.1919 -
Henry Moore OM, CH Drawing
1935
