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Why Draw A Landscape?: A Portfolio Of Prints By Contemporary Artists, University Of Richmond Museums
Why Draw A Landscape?: A Portfolio Of Prints By Contemporary Artists, University Of Richmond Museums
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Why Draw a Landscape?: A Portfolio of Prints by Contemporary Artists
August 20 to December 7, 2003
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Introduction
Why Draw a Landscape? features a portfolio of prints on the theme of landscape in contemporary art, commissioned by Crown Point Press in San Francisco and completed in 1999. Each of the eleven participating artists answered the question with a print that attests to the vitality of the natural world.
Collectively, this portfolio includes a diversity of artistic approaches, ranging from documentary accuracy, to expressive images, to abstraction in which areas of colors suggest the …
Robert Motherwell On Paper: Gesture, Variation, And Continuity, University Of Richmond Museums
Robert Motherwell On Paper: Gesture, Variation, And Continuity, University Of Richmond Museums
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Robert Motherwell on Paper: Gesture, Variation, and Continuity
October 17 to December 13, 1997
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
Abstract art is stripped bare of other things in order to intensify its rhythms, spatial intervals, and color structure, a process of emphasis. - Robert Motherwell
The renowned Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), best known as a painter, produced a remarkable body of works on paper. His drawings, prints, and collages show an intimate side of his visual sensibility and reveal the very personal "handwriting" of the artist as he responded to the subtleties of paper, both as a medium and …