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Exhibitions
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 19, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Watch our Graphic Masters II Exhibition Slide Show
Stuart Davis, Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York), 1938, gouache on paperboard, sheet: 14 3/4 x 22 1/8 in. (37.5 x 55.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the United States Information Agency through the General Services Administration
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the second in a series of special installations, celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper. These exceptional watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1920s to the 1960s reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth will be featured in the exhibition. Joann Moser, senior curator for graphic arts, selected the artworks in Graphic Masters.
Publication
The accompanying book, Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is available in the museum's online shop for $19.95.
