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graphic arts

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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Lithography from Ingres to Picasso, February 25-April 2, 1961

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of lithographs surveying the development of the medium since its accidental inception in 1798. The exhibition records span five folders.

Dates: February 25-April 2, 1961

Surrealism and Its Forerunners: Prints from Durer to Dali, September 9-October 16, 1955

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of 60 surrealist and fantastical prints from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. The exhibition records span five folders plus photographs.

Dates: September 9-October 16, 1955

Three Spanish Printmakers: Goya, Fortuny, Picasso, March 28-April 26, 1959

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of prints comparing Spanish artists Francisco Goya of the eighteenth century, with nineteenth century artist Mariano Fortuny, and twentieth century contemporary artist Pablo Picasso, highlighting the newly donated etchings of the lesser known artist Fortuny. The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.

Dates: March 28-April 26, 1959

Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of Vincent Price, August 2-27, 1950

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An exhibition of 16 drawings and paintings from the collection of actor Vincent Price of Los Angeles. The exhibition records span two folders plus a catalog and object photographs.

Dates: August 2-27, 1950