August 17, 1972
The Brooklyn Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings will exhibit a selection of 70 drawings from its outstanding permanent collection in the Museum’s Print Gallery from August 23 to November 5, 1972. Some of the works by American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, are on view to the public for the first time, while others have rarely been seen. Admission is free.
Many of the artists represented in the show participated in the formative movements of American art, as is illustrated by the landscape drawings of William Sidney Mount, William Morris Hunt, David Johnson and Thomas Moran (painters of the Hudson River School) and two charcoal portraits by Eastman Johnson drawn in 1884. Two of the more unique selections from the exhibit are a series of anatomical studies by Daniel Huntington, and the rare drawing of a chart of colors by Samuel F.B. Morse. Thomas Eakins, an artist not known primarily as an illustrator, is represented by an unusual wash drawing executed for an illustration for Scribner’s Magazine.
Later works include drawings by the sculptors Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, David Smith and David Slivka. Highlights of AMERICAN DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM include Arshile Gorky’s study for his painting, “They Will Take My Island” (1944); an early cubist drawing (1910) by Max Weber and Morris Graves’ delicate “Animal With Reflections”.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1972, 055. View Original
