MoMA Exhibits Postwar Drawings from It's Superb Collection

MoMA Exhibits Postwar Drawings from Its Superb Collection
As part of a continuing celebration of its 75th anniversary and recent reopening, The Museum of Modern Art presents the second segment of a yearlong three part chronological exhibition of the most extensive display ever of drawings from its collection.

"Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975," presented in The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries on the third floor, examines postwar drawing through a full range of styles and subjects.

The artists featured in the exhibition introduced new subject matter and experimented with a host of new techniques: from the defiance of conventional notions of representation an composition in works by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning to the appropriation of popular culture in the art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; from the Conceptualism and Mini-malism of Agnes Martin and Eva Hesse to the geometric abstraction practiced by Latin American artists like Helio Oiticica and Gego.

In addition, many recent acquisitions will be on view by such artists as Mel Bochner, Lygia Clark, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Lee Lozano and Brice Marden.

"Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975," on view through August 29, is organized by Gary Garrels, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, and Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture.

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