Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

November 14, 2004 – June 6, 2005
West Building, Ground Floor, Central Galleries

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: This exhibition presented 140 drawings, watercolors, pastels, prints, and illustrated books acquired by the National Gallery of Art during the previous five years. Organized chronologically from the 15th through the 20th century, the exhibition included works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and Roy Lichtenstein, among many others.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Curator for the exhibition was Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator, with the assistance of Judith Brodie, curator of modern prints and drawings, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings, and Peter Parshall, curator of old master prints at the National Gallery.

Attendance: 293,879