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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings
This book presents a major new thematic and chronological catalogue
survey of the Columbus Museum's most significant holdings of
drawings and works on paper, including examples in graphite,
charcoal, monotype and pastel. At the heart of the Columbus
Museum's collection, and of this volume, is the work of a
remarkable individual, Dr. Phillip L. Brewer, who has amassed a
truly significant collection of American works on paper - both in
terms of its depth and breadth. For the first time this volume
presents nearly 200 of these master drawings, 120 of the most
important of which are grouped into six chapters, illustrated in
full colour, and accompanied by extended catalogue entries written
by leading experts. A further 79 works are presented as colour and
mono thumbnails interspersed amongst the images of the key works.
Included are images by Copley, West and Cole that date from the
earliest years of American nationhood; works by Oscar Bluemner,
Arthur Dove and Morton Schamberg which herald the advent of
modernism; while others by Hans Hoffmann, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Blanche
Lazzell and Rico Lebrun confirm its continued presence through such
varied expressions as social realism, surrealism and abstraction.
While artists like Milton Avery, Jack Beal, Paul Cadmus, Philip
Evergood, Nancy Grossman, and Louise Nevelson explore the strength
and beauty of the human form, James Valerio and Andrew Wyeth
document the changing faces of the natural world. Together these
works, and Lines of Discovery, offer a comprehensive survey of the
history of American art.
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