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Once Upon a Time: Prints and Drawings that Tell Stories

Künstler: Norman Rockwell, Henri Matisse, Vassily Kandinsky, Edouard Manet, Jim Dine, David Hockney

Ausstellung: 21.12.2011 - 24.06.2012

Veranstalter: The Detroit Institute of Arts
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Stadt: Detroit
Homepage: The Detroit Institute of Arts

Once Upon a Time: Prints and Drawings that Tell Stories
Edouard Manet. Poster and Frontispiece for Edgar Allan’s Poe’s The Raven, 1875, lithograph, Founders Society Purchase, Director’s Discretionary Fund

 


Telling stories through pictures, specifically with prints and drawings, is the subject of this exhibition organized from the DIA collection. It includes selections from many familiar series, portfolios, and books, as well as several examples that have rarely or never been seen at the museum. Included are David Hockney ’s etchings to Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, three volumes of Moby Dick with illustrations by Norman Rockwell , a copy of the 15th-century Nuremberg Chronicle, Wassily Kandinsky’s Klang, Henri Matisse ’s Parsiphal, Jim Dine ’s Picture of Dorian Gray, and many more European an American works on paper from a variety of eras.

The exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts.
 

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KünstlerInnen:  David Hockney , Norman Rockwell , Vassily Kandinsky , Henri Matisse , Jim Dine , Edouard Manet , u.a.