Knoxville Museum of Art
Knoxville, TN
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Knoxville Museum of Art Hosts Twentieth Century American Drawings
The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Twentieth Century American
Drawings, a fascinating exhibition that encompasses a great diversity of
drawing styles and techniques, spanning the greater part of the twentieth
century of American art. The exhibition opens May 28, 1999 and will be on
display until July 18, 1999. Twentieth Century American Drawings has been
organized by the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection.
Twentieth Century American Drawings consists of 102 drawings
by nearly 100 of America's 
leading artists of the 20fh century. The Arkansas
Arts Center, widely regarded as having one of the finest collections of
the 20th century American drawings in the country, is a museum dedicated
solely to collecting "unique works on paper." Among the artists
represented in the exhibition are Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Edward
Hopper, Roy Lichenstein, Jackson Pollock and Georgia O'Keeffe.
From top to bottom (click on thumbnails to enlarge): Carolyn Brady, Lunch
1, 1988, Sepia wash on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 3/8 inches; Charles Burchfield,
Burning Muckland; 1929, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 19 1/2 X
26 3/4 inches; William Glackens, Beach, Coney lsland; circa 1907,
Illustration crayon, wash and Chinese white on paper, 22 1/4 x 29 inches,
Georgia O'Keeffe, Banana Flower #1, 1933, Charcoal on paper, 22
x 15 inches
See also Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation for images from Fort Wayne Museum of Art, a prior venue.
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