Prints and Drawings

Andy Warhol(American, born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1928-1987), Muhammed Ali, 1979, silkscreen, 40 x 30 inches each (set of 4), edition 3/150. Permanent Collection 1991.246d.  Gift of Dr. Richard Golden.

The Museum’s holdings include over 800 European and American prints and drawings from 19th century European to large-scale contemporary works.

Strengths of the print collection include modernist print suites from Joan Miro, Alexander Calder and Marc Chagall, to Victor Vasarely and Agam. A wide variety of styles and levels of techinical ability are represented.

Contemporary prints by artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Christo, Jean Tinguely, Jasper Johns and Robert Indiana, etchings by Eric Fischl, Claes Oldenberg, and Joel Shapiro; and silkscreens by Jennifer Bartlett and Ilya Bolotowsky demonstrate the revitalization of printmaking in the late-20th-century. Drawings range from French 19th-century academic to early modern works by Odilon Redon, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat and Georges Braque that are displayed on a rotating basis because of their fragility and sensitivity to light.