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Color into Line: Pastels from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and California Collections
09 Oct, 2021 - 13 Feb, 2022
Color into Line presents a powerful selection of masterpiece drawings done with pastel, one of the most versatile and adaptable media in art history. Spanning from the Renaissance to most recent artistic experimentations鈥攆rom Rosalba Carriera to Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas to John Altoon and Wayne Thiebaud鈥攖he narrative highlights technical aspects with an emphasis on the design process behind the works. Drawn mostly from the Fine Arts Museums鈥� own holdings in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Museums鈥� department of works on paper, the exhibition celebrates the artistry of pastel through the richness of the Bay Area art collections with selected loans from local private collections and public institutions.
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Color into Line presents a powerful selection of masterpiece drawings done with pastel, one of the most versatile and adaptable media in art history. Spanning from the Renaissance to most recent artistic experimentations鈥攆rom Rosalba Carriera to Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas to John Altoon and Wayne Thiebaud鈥攖he narrative highlights technical aspects with an emphasis on the design process behind the works. Drawn mostly from the Fine Arts Museums鈥� own holdings in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Museums鈥� department of works on paper, the exhibition celebrates the artistry of pastel through the richness of the Bay Area art collections with selected loans from local private collections and public institutions.
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