Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The show included French, Italian, Dutch, German, Polish and American drawings of various periods and styles. With its rich iconography and elegantly linear draughtsmanship, it is a fine example of the artist s mature work. The majority of drawings in the show were more modern. The artist s confident ability in this medium is evident in the deftness and surety of the few gestural pen strokes that comprise this drawing.
Drawings are often such highly personal and intimate works.
One piece included in the show is Max Beckmann's preliminary sketch for his first major oil painting, 'The Sinking of the Titanic,' from 1912. The rapid pencil strokes contain the fury of the stormy sea and one can sense Beckmann s initial realization of the monumentality of this tragedy.