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graphic arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Processes and techniques for making images using the arts of printmaking, illustration, drawing, and other techniques that depend upon line and not color to render the design. In historical usage, the term referred more broadly to presentation in two-dimensional visual form, including most arts on paper, panel, or canvas, including painting.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Audubon Prints, January 13-February 13, 1944

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Abstract

An exhibition of 9 prints by French-American artist and nineteenth-century naturalist John James Audubon, accompanied by watercolors, drawings, sea shells, birds feathers, butterflies, and other insects, arranged by the San Francisco Academy of Sciences. The exhibition records span two folders.

Dates: January 13-February 13, 1944

The Disasters of the War and Other Etchings by Goya, September 1-October 28, 1951

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Abstract

An exhibition of 80 modern etching reprints from the original plates by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya from the museum’s permanent collection, plus loans from the Seattle Art Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Barnaby Conrad, Jr., and Robert M. Kasper, Co. The exhibition records span two folders plus photographs.

Dates: September 1-October 28, 1951