Transforming the Figure: Post WWII Prints March 20, 2011

This exhibition of post-WWII prints by artists such as Romare Bearden, Arthur Bowen Davies, Ester Hernandez, Lester Johnson, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Doel Reed, Ben Shahn and Rufino Tamayo illustrates some of the various methods in which the figure can be depicted, either in a representational or abstract style and how some of the innovative uses of distortion, foreshortening and coloration change the meaning of an artwork.