December
19
THE HIGH: TOP DRAWER- A SELECTION OF DRAWINGS
The High Museum of Art is pleased to present Top Drawer, a selection of drawings from four of the museum’s curatorial departments. Separated by centuries and continents, these diverse drawings are brought together by the unique insights each work brings into its creation.
The term “drawing” encompasses a varied set of techniques: objects in pencil, ink, pastel, watercolor, and combinations thereof fall into this category. Drawings also serve a variety of purposes: they act as finished works of art, as preparations for other artworks, or as sketches that translate the artist’s thoughts onto paper.
This range of practices is united by a set of common characteristics. In contrast to many paintings, drawings reveal the nature of their own making. Each mark exists as a record of the artist’s gesture, and in looking, the viewer can trace the movement of the artist’s hand or body. Because of this, drawing has long been considered the most intimate of media. It has a sense of immediacy that other media lack, acting at times as a window into the artist’s mind.
Top Drawer celebrates the versatility and time honored tradition of this act of mark-making through some of the best drawings in the High’s permanent collection.
POSSE PHOTOS:
Layla and Lia outside of The High
Top Drawer Images
Lia and Layla with a Mary Cassatt piece
Layla, Lia, Cathy and Barbara
Lia, Layla and Barbara
Barbara Lia and Layla
Piece from the exhibition
Piece from the exhibition
Degas sketch front the exhibition
Piece from the exhibition
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Pieces from the exhibition
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Mary Cassatt piece from the exhibition
Piece from the exhibition
Pieces from the exhibition
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Pieces from the exhibition
Piece from the exhibition
Salvador Dali Piece from the exhibition
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Pieces from the exhibition
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Pieces from the exhibition
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Piece from the exhibition
Thornton Dial Piece from the exhibition
Thornton Dial piece from the exhibition
Thornton Dial piece from the exhibition
Piece from the exhibition
Layla with a Piece from the exhibition
Reverse of a piece from the exhibition
PIeces from the exhibition
Bill Traylor pieces from the exhibition
Closeup of Bill Traylor pieces
Closeup of Bill Traylor pieces
Grandma, Iman & Barbara’s son
Barbara, Layla and Lia
Layla and Lia
Pieces from the exhibition
Piece from the exhibition
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