Figuratively Speaking October 28, 2011

Since Prehistoric times, humans have been moved to draw or paint images of the people around them. As time went on, those figures began to inhabit environments that tell us much about the world in which the artists lived. From the Museum's vast holdings of figurative art, a group of 19th- and 20th-Century American, European and Asian paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture have been chosen for this Old Gallery exhibition. Although a number of the works were purchases from the Museum's biennial "Mid-States" art exhibitions, others like the important 1982 lithograph, 'Two Nudes with Adirondack Rocker' by the celebrated contemporary artist Philip Pearlstein, are the gifts of private donors.