Past Exhibition

Imitation and Invention

Details

  • Dates

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  • Locations

    East Building, Ground Floor

Overview: This exhibition of 64 prints, from the National Gallery and other collections, brought together well-known prints and the prints that inspired them, and others that they in turn inspired.

Organization: Curators of the exhibition were Gregory Jecmen, assistant curator of old master prints at the National Gallery, and Nadine Orenstein, assistant curator of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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