This sense of intrigue and emotional resonance is often amplified when the human figure is only revealed in part. Partial Figure examines what the artists have chosen to reveal as well as what they omit.

Objects selected from across the NCMA collection explore multiple mediums and artistic styles, including influential sculptural examples from ancient Greece and 19th-century French artist Auguste Rodin, works on paper by Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso, and photographs by Eudora Welty, Joyce Tenneson, Barbara Morgan, and others.

Organized by the North Carolina Museum 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.