Past Exhibition
Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860–1990

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Overview: On view on the ground floor are 26 outstanding European and American drawings, watercolors, and prints from the Corcoran collection. The installation begins with three hushed, pastoral scenes by Barbizon school artist Jean-François Millet and continues with the satirical Le Défenseur (Council for the Defense) (c. 1862–1865) by Honoré Daumier and two vibrant pastels by Edgar Degas—Café-Concert (1876/1877) and Two Women Performing (c. 1878–1880). Other celebrated works include Winslow Homer’s renowned watercolors Young Woman Sewing (1876) and Hudson River, Logging (1891/1892); Charles Demuth’s Rooftops and Trees (1918) and In Vaudeville, the Bicycle Rider (1919); Marsden Hartley’s