This original watercolor by John Groth (1908-1988) is the newest addition to the wizard’s collection of Quixote moments. Signed at lower right, dated 1966.
Groth used a style technique called “speed line,” in which he sketched his subjects using rough, unperfected lines and then filled in between the lines with watercolors.
Ernest Hemingway, a friend to Groth during World War II, wrote of him,
“None of us understood the sort of shorthand he sketched in. The men would look at the sketches and see just a lot of lines. It was a great pleasure to find what fine drawings they were when we got to see them.”