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American Drawings Exhibition to Open at Princeton University Art Museum
PRINCETON -- "American Watercolors, Drawings and Pastels: Homer to O'Keeffe," an exhibition of nearly forty works on paper, will be on view at The Art Museum, Princeton University, from April 17 through May 9, 1999.
The exhibition, which is open to the public, is organized in conjunction with "American Art and Modernism," a spring semester course taught by John Wilmerding, Christopher Binyon Sarofim "86 Professor in American Art and chair of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton.
The exhibition, with highlights from the Museum's substantial collection of drawings from the mid-nineteenth century to modern times, includes works by such well-known artists as Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth.
"The Art Museum has a substantial and growing collection of fine American drawings and watercolors from the Colonial period up to the present. Many of our major artists are now well represented, some with several examples of different subjects and styles," said Professor Wilmerding.
The Art Museum is open to the public without charge. Free highlights tours of the collection are given every Saturday at 2 p.m. The Museum is openTuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. It is closed on Monday and major holidays. The Museum Shop closes at 5 p.m.
The Museum is located in the middle of the Princeton University campus. Picasso's large sculpture Head of a Woman stands in front. For further information, please call (609) 258-3788.