For forty years, most of Jack Scott’s drawings have stayed rolled up, but not out of neglect. By the early 1980s the fields had condensed into towering urns; in 1984 he began Study for a Black Drawing, a run of dark rectangles he still calls unfinished. Jack Scott, Black Drawing, 1976, charcoal on unprimed canvas, 59½ × 92″. Those black rectangles in Study for a Black Drawing are absurd attempts at the ideal void. Jack Scott, Light Black Blur #2, 1978, charcoal on unprimed canvas, 83¼ × 177″.