Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper September 2, 2009

To mark the opening of AIC's Modern Wing, the Department of Prints and Drawings will celebrate its extensive holdings of works on paper with an exhibition highlighting its modern and contemporary collection of drawings. Presenting approximately 80 works that, due to their inherent sensitivity to light, are rarely exhibited in public galleries, the exhibition shows artists' evolving use of drawing, from highly finished works of art to notational and diagrammatic sheets. Highlights include works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Ernst Kirchner, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Martin Kippenberger.