An inventive obsession with technical process, extending to the revival of the monotype, revolutionized the creative force of printmaking in Paris during the late 19th- and early 20th centuries. The works of Vicomte Lepic, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Jacques Villon, Edvard Munch, and Paul Gauguin illustrate the profound importance of the unfinished print for the genesis of European modernism. The exhibition is curated by Peter Parshall, curator of old master prints for the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall between Third and Ninth Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW, are open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Sculpture Garden is open until 7 p.m. daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Admission is free.