Sharka Hyland

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    • description: Paul Celan, Ein Dröhnen (1967), 2017. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: Saul Bellow, Seize the Day (103), 2018. Pencil on prepared paper, 12×16 inches.
    • description: Kafka, Der Verschollene (418), 2018. Pencil on prepared paper, 10.25×13.25 inches.
    • description: Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River (ch. ıv) 2018. Pencil on prepared paper, 12×16 inches. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
    • description: Dante, Purgatorio (vııı, 22–30), 2019. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 11×15 inches.
    • description: Dante, Purgatorio (xv, 1–24), 2019. Pencil on paper, 12×18 inches.
    • description: Dante, Purgatorio (x, 55–63), 2019. Pencil on paper, 12×16 inches.
    • description: John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (94), 2018. Pencil on paper, 12×16 inches.
    • description: Walt Whitman, I hear America singing, 2018. Pencil on prepared paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: Dante, Purgatorio (vııı, 19–36), 2018. Pencil on paper, 12×18 inches.
    • description: Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (257), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches.
    • description: Chateaubriand, Atala (35), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches
    • description: Heinrich Heine, Der Rabbi von Bacherach (133 ), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches.
    • description: Shakespeare, The Tempest (III/ 2, 133–141), 2017. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: Dante, Purgatorio (IX, 139–145), 2017. Pencil on paper, 10.25x12.5 inches.
    • description: Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (657 / Schnee), 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches.
    • description: Rilke, An die Musik (1916), 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.4x16 inches.
    • description: F.L.Wright, The Art and Craft of the Machine (3), 2014. Pencil on paper, 11.25x10.5 inches.
    • description: F.L.Wright, The Art and Craft of the Machine (2), 2014. Pencil on paper, 11.25x10.5 inches.
    • description: F.L.Wright, The Art and Craft of the Machine (1), 2014. Pencil on paper, 11.25x10.5 inches.
    • description: Walt Whitman, Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (1867), 2014. Pencil on prepared paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: Kafka, Amerika (37), 2014. Pencil on paper, 9.25x10.5 inches.
    • description: W.C. Williams, The Great Figure (1921), 2014. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro (1916), 2014. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: Walter Benjamin, The Arcade Project (423), 2014. Pencil on prepared paper, 13.5x18 inches.
    • description: Joyce, The Dead (194), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches
    • description: Virginia Woolf, The Years (1913, 241), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.4x16 inches.
    • description: Kafka, Das Schloss (7), 2014. Pencil on paper, 8.5x10 inches
    • description: Kafka, Das Schloss (85), 2015. Pencil on paper, 8.5x10 inches
    • description: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (33), 2015. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches
    • description: Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (2), 2015. Pencil on prepared paper, 10.5x14.25 inches
    • description: Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (1), 2015. Pencil on prepared paper, 10.5x14.25 inches
    • description: De Quincey, The Human Brain Is a Palimpsest, 2015. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.5x14.25 inches
    • description: Borges, El testigo, 2015. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.5x14.25 inches
    • description: Borges, La Biblioteca de Babel, 2015. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.5x14.25 inches
    • description: Kerouac, The Night Is My Woman (96), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x14 inches
    • description: Kerouac, La nuit est ma femme (70), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches
    • description: David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (769), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches 
    • description: Nabokov, Lolita (152), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches.
    • description: Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (345), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches.
    • description: Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (6), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches.
    • description: Henry James, Roderick Hudson (92), 2013. Pencil on paper, 11.5x14.25 inches.
    • description: Thoreau, Walden (Sounds), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 11x14 inches.
    • description: F.S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (154), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches.
    • description: Kafka, Oxforder Oktavheft 7, p.12, 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.4x16 inches 
    • description: Jack Kerouac, Sur le chemin (220), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x14 inches 
    • description: T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (V), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.5x14.5 inches 
    • description: Virginia Woolf, The String Quartet, 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.25x16 inches 
    • description: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Beethovens Instrumental-Musik, 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches 
    • description: Anton Chekhov, Step, 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches
    • description: W.G. Sebald, Moments musicaux, 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.4x14.5 inches 
    • description: Robert Walser, Paganini, 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.4x16 inches 
    • description: Gustave Flaubert, L'éducation sentimentale (26), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches 
    • description: Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (I, 164), 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.4x16 inches 
    • description: Baudelaire, Spleen (LXXVIII), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 10.25x12.5 inches
    • description: Rilke, Gong (1914), 2016. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 11.4x16 inches
    • description: Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (677, Schnee), 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x18 inches
    • description: Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus (651), 2016. Pencil on paper, 11.5x14.5 inches 
    • description: Goethe, Faust (3940–3955), 2016. Pencil on paper, 10.25x12.5 inches 
    • description: Goethe, Faust (3871–3888), 2016. Pencil on paper, 10.25x12.5 inches 
    • description: Hermann Broch, Der Tod des Vergil (453), 2016. Pencil on paper, 12x16 inches 
    • description: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (187), 2016. Pencil on prepared paper, 11.25x16 inches
    • description: James Joyce, A portrait of the artist as a young man (ch. 3), 2017. Pencil on prepared paper, 12x16 inches
    • description: James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime (8), 2013. Pencil on paper, 12x18 inches 
    • description: Henry James, The Ambassadors (Strether by the river), 2014. Pencil on paper, 12x18 inches