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Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

March 19, 2016—June 19, 2016
North Carolina Museum of Art
Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art features some of the most important drawings from the superlative collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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The selection of drawings, watercolors, gouaches, and pastels dating from the Middle Ages to the present includes stellar examples by such masters as Guercino, Annibale Carracci, George Romney, François Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Edgar Degas, Käthe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, Emil Nolde, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ed Ruscha. This eye-opening exhibition illuminates the historical and ongoing role of drawing as a means of study, observation, and problem solving, as an outpouring of the artist’s imagination, and as a method of realizing a finished work of art.

Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.

 

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Hercules, 1641–42, pen and brown ink, 7 ¼ x 6 ¾ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art

Slide Show

TRESS IV Mequitta Ahuja, Tress IV, 2008, waxy chalk on paper, 96 ½ x 45 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art, © 2008 Mequitta Ahuja, reproduced with permission of the artist
STANDING GIRL Egon Schiele, Standing Girl, circa 1908—09, charcoal and tempera, 52 â…œ x 20 ⅝ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
STUDY FOR “THE LAPLAND WITCH George Romney, Study for “The Lapland Witch,” circa 1775—77, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink over graphite, laid down, 19 ⅝ x 11 3/16 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
AMARYLLIS JAUNE (YELLOW AMARYLLIS) Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Amaryllis jaune (Yellow Amaryllis), circa 1800—06, watercolor and graphite pencil on vellum, 18 ½ x 13 ¼ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Arthur Rackham, Little Red Riding Hood, 1909, pen and ink with watercolor, on illustration board, 11 ⅛ x 7 ⅝ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
PSYCHE CARRIED OFF BY THE ZEPHYRS Pierre—Paul Prud’hon, Psyche Carried Off by the Zephyrs, 1808 or later, black and white chalk over graphite on faded blue wove paper, with framing lines in black chalk, 17 ½ x 12 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
TWO BATHERS Otto Mueller, Two Bathers, 1923, graphite, watercolor, and two colors of blue chalk, 26 ½ x 19 ¾ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
FEMALE BUST IN RED Amedeo Modigliani, Female Bust in Red, 1915, red gouache and black ink wash on wove paper laid down on Japan, 14 x 10 5/16 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
SEATED WOMAN IN THE STUDIO Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Seated Woman in the Studio, 1909, pastel, brush and ink, 35 ⅜ x 26 ⅝ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
THE CONCH DIVERS Winslow Homer, The Conch Divers, 1885, watercolor, blotting, lifting, and scraping, over graphite, 13 13/16 x 20 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
MOTT #3 Philip Guston, Mott #3, 1959, gouache on paper, 22 3/16 x 29 ⅝ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art, © 2015 Philip Guston / The Guston Foundation
HERCULES Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Hercules, 1641—42, pen and brown ink, 7 ¼ x 6 ¾ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
STUDY FOR ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Pietro Fancelli, Study for Orpheus and Eurydice (recto); A Bacchanal Procession (verso), circa 1800—10, pen and brown ink over graphite on paper, 16 x 22 â…› in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
SELF-PORTRAIT Lovis Corinth, Self-Portrait, 1908, brush and ink, black chalk on gray heavy wove cardboard, 27 ⅜ x 23 ¼ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
CORPUS CHRIST Choirbook Master, Spanish (Toledo), “Corpus Christ,” in a historiated I, page from Illuminated Antiphonary, 1484, gouache and gold on parchment, 27 ½ x 18 ½ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES Ludovico Carracci, Judith Beheading Holofernes, circa 1583—85, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, squared in black chalk; laid down, 9 ¼ x 15 â…œ in., Minneapolis Institute of Art

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