Selections from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. This exhibition of approximately fifty works draws from the Museum's unparalleled holdings of modern and contemporary prints and showcases numerous recent acquisitions never before on view. Among the artists represented are Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, Richard Hamilton, and Sherrie Levine.
Selections from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.
Throughout art history, portraits have fulfilled a range of social and cultural functions from official tributes to family homages
to idealizations of the anonymous everyman. Modern artists have continued this tradition and have also used faces to evoke
a panoply of expressive states. Contemporary artists have found increasingly inventive and conceptual approaches to this
traditional genre. This exhibition of approximately fifty works draws from the Museum's unparalleled holdings of modern
and contemporary prints and showcases numerous recent acquisitions never before on view. Among the artists represented
are Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, Richard Hamilton, and Sherrie Levine.
Organized by Wendy Weitman, Associate Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.
Third floor, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York