Urban sketchers find the sublime in the city block
toggle caption Deena Prichep
Great landscape art can take you into a world: the majestic hills of Georgia O'Keeffe's Southwestern sublime; the pastoral calm of Monet's water lilies. But for years now, groups of amateurs have been gathering with sketchbooks in cities across the world to turn their artistic gaze to the everyday sights of skyscrapers and sidewalks — and find beauty there.
The idea of "urban sketchers," or the name at least, started almost 20 y
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