“Scofield Thayer (1889–1982) was editor and co-owner of the Dial, a journal that published writing and art by the European and American avant-garde (many of whom are pictured nearby) from 1919 to 1926. An aesthete, he was a brilliant abstract thinker and a complex, conflicted… Read More
All posts tagged “Drawings”
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical from Leonardo to the Present at National Gallery of Art, July 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019
“Prints and drawings have consistently served as popular media for humor in art. Prints, which can be widely replicated and distributed, are ideal for institutional mockery and social criticism, while drawings, unmediated and private, allow for free rein of the imagination. Sense of Humor will… Read More
Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman at The Morgan Library & Museum, May 18 – September 23, 2018
“Best known for his rich, colorful paintings of cakes, ice cream cones, and candy counters, California artist Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist. Featuring subjects that range from deli counters… Read More
Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions at The Drawing Center, April 6 – August 12, 2018
“The Drawing Center presents an overview of Terry Winters’s drawings from 1980 to the present, the first such exhibition in the United States. It will include a selection of large-scale works on paper and a wide span of smaller drawings as well as a suite of rarely… Read More
The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs at The Transformer Station, January 20 – April 15, 2018
“Dana Schutz returns to Cleveland with a new exhibition, Eating Atom Bombs, featuring a group of 12 paintings and three drawings created primarily in the past year. Seven of these works have never been exhibited before. The exhibition’s title speaks to the precariousness of our… Read More
Louisiana on Paper. George Condo: The Way I Think, Drawings 1974-2015 at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, through February 4, 2018
“The American artist George Condo (b. 1957) has not been shown in Scandinavia, so his drawings from four decades present a unique opportunity to get to previously know this original artist. The artist is a classic in his own country and has recently had major… Read More
Tomi Ungerer: All in One at The Drawing Center, January 16 – March 22, 2015
“No one, I dare say, no one was as original. Tomi influenced everybody.” — Maurice Sendak. Images courtesy The Drawing Center
Madame Cézanne at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 2014 – March 15, 2015
Images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chris Ofili: Night and Day at New Museum, October 29, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Images courtesy New Museum
Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil at The Morgan Library & Museum, September 26, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Images courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum
From Here to Here: Richard McGuire Makes a Book at The Morgan Library & Museum, September 25 – November 9, 2014
The Morgan premieres the first edition of Richard McGuire’s Graphic Novel “Here“. The book will be published in December as a book and an e-book. The exhibition shows the process behind its creation. Images courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum
Thread Lines & Xanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War at The Drawing Center, September 19 – December 14, 2014
Images courtesy The Drawing Center












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