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
The Sunblind
Juan Gris
1914
Eros and Psyche
Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi
Wooded Landscape with Peasant Asleep and Horses outside a Shed
Thomas Gainsborough
c.1775–80
The Sea
Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1844–5
Thomas Williams, a Sailor
John Downman
1815
Drawing 85/8
John Golding
1985
Study for a Seated Woman Gazing at ‘Magog Thrown into the Sea’, for Dorchester House
Alfred Stevens
c.1860
Girl Reclining
Wyndham Lewis
c.1919
Drawing
Henry Moore OM, CH
1935