M. C. Escher - Gallery

A sketch of an eye, with a human skull in the pupil.
"Eye" 1946
A sketch of a couryard, where people are walking on the floors, walls, and ceilings.
"Relativity" 1953
A sketch of a country side, with bird tessellations in the middle. Left and Right are essentially mirror images. Left side is the light 'day', and right side is the dark 'night'.
"Day and Night" 1938
A perspective sketch of an infinite waterfall, using the 'impossible triangle' geometry.
"Waterfall" 1961
A color photograph of M.C. Escher lookit at some papers on his desk.
M.C. Escher in 1963
A perspective sketch of a building with an impossible staircase on the top. 1 line of people are perpetually ascending, while the other line is perpetualluy descending those same stairs.
"Ascending and Descending" 1960
A sketch showing a loop of crocidiles crawling out of a tessellation drawing, walking across a desk, then crawling back into the tessalation drawing.
"Reptiles" 1943
A perspective sketch of imposible architecture with some people. At first glace, the left and right sides appear to be mirror images. However, the left is a view from above, and the right is a view from below.
"Convex and Concave" 1955
A sketch of a woman's & a man's heads floating in a void with little spheres. The heads are made of a single ribbon that connects them. It's hard to describe.
"Bond of Union" 1956