Maybe it’s a good thing that the Memorial Art Gallery did not do a catalog for their current “Drawing As Discovery” show. It got us over there three times and each time we found new favorites. I probably photographed a quarter of the 120 pieces. I’ve been visiting there since you entered by going up the big steps in the front of the old section and this is the best show they have ever mounted. And to think that all of these pieces are in their collection. Works on paper are fragile so they will be put to bed when the show closes today.
“I like the idea of a word becoming a picture, almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again.” Ed Ruscha
It will be a long time before we see 8 graphic Kara Walker drawings, Lyonel Feininger, Auguste Rodin, Burchfield, Picasso, Sol LeWitt, Goya, Rembrandt, Daumier, Delacroix, Tiepolo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Tamayo, David Hockney, Léger, and Morandi in the same space.
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