She suggests that it is in Malevich's drawings that we can follow his artistic quest up close: for example, you can see the artist
experimenting in his sketchbook in 1916, during his military service in the First World War.
Within the
sketchbooks are over a thousand drawings that reflect his interest
in both nature and the built environment of California, along with studies of figures, portraits of his wife, and
experiments with abstract expressionist color fields.