Master drawings from the Worcester Art Museum
By: David Acton.
Contributors: Acton, David, 1953-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Worcester Art Museum; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by National Book Network
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York; [Lanham, MD]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Worcester Art Museum -- Catalogs.; Drawing -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- Catalogs.
Description: One of the finest collections of master drawings in America is at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. To celebrate the museum's centennial, the collection's greatest masterpieces of draftsmanship are being exhibited in Worcester, followed by a tour.

These one hundred works, in a broad variety of media, are reproduced in full color, each accompanied by a comprehensive essay.

They range from a medieval illuminated choir book page; through old masters Rubens, Guercino, Ribera, the Tiepolos, Boucher, Copley, Prud'hon, David, and Rowlandson; nineteenth-century masters Ingres, Millet, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Homer; modernist masters Kirchner, Modigliani, Sargent, Grosz, Rivera, Marin, Noguchi, and Giacometti; to recent works by David Hockney and Sam Francis - seven centuries in all, the entire spectrum of Western draftsmanship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-279) and index.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Worcester Art Museum, Apr. 18-June 21, 1998, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Nov. 7, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999, Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa, Feb. 7-Apr. 11, 1999, and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, May 8-July 11, 1999.