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Newly Acquired Prints Showcase Rembrandt’s Innovative Printmaking Practice

Newly Acquired Prints Showcase Rembrandt’s Innovative Printmaking Practice

The Museum recently acquired two etchings by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669): The Windmill of 1641 and The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Segers of around 1652.
Tigers’ Eyes on Alabama Paper: Tailing Thornton Dial’s Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

Tigers’ Eyes on Alabama Paper: Tailing Thornton Dial’s Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

No artist draws a timeless portrait of the history of African American struggle in Alabama and the Deep South better than Thornton Dial Sr. (1928–2016) of Bessemer, Alabama.
A Major Gift of American Prints

A Major Gift of American Prints

The Museum’s collection of American prints and drawings has been substantially augmented by a recent gift from Richard Reinis, Class of 1966, and Lois Reinis.
Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Study for Negro Sunshine #2 (2004), a drawing in oil stick and coal dust on paper by the American artist Glenn Ligon (born 1960), repeats across the eleven horizontal lines of its composition the letters that make up the words “negro sunshine.”
Pivotal Works by African American Artists Enrich the Collections

Pivotal Works by African American Artists Enrich the Collections

This article introduces in chronological sequence five recently acquired works by leading Black modern and contemporary artists, made between the 1940s and the recent present.
Counternarratives of Love: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Toni Morrison

Counternarratives of Love: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Toni Morrison
Rembrandt's The Three Trees

Rembrandt's The Three Trees

The Art Museum recently acquired an exceptional impression of The Three Trees , made at the apex of the artist’s career and a year after his most celebrated painting, The Night Watch (1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Mario Moore's Stay Woke

Mario Moore's Stay Woke

Mario Moore’s silverpoint drawing Stay Woke is an arresting and visionary self-portrait that utilizes an exacting and exquisite technique to evoke the charged intersection of personal trauma and institutional racism
Discovering Drawings: Erich Heckel's High Clouds, 1913

Discovering Drawings: Erich Heckel's High Clouds, 1913
Last Look | Watercolors by John White Abbott and David Cox

Last Look | Watercolors by John White Abbott and David Cox

Don’t miss your chance to see recent acquisitions by David Cox and John White Abbott, currently on view in the exhibition Landscapes Behind Cézanne —now extended through Sunday, May 20!