The "gems" of the DIA`s graphic arts collection—over 100 of the "best" prints, drawings, and photographs—will be selected from the 35,000 objects that currently constitute the museum`s holding in works on paper. Among the highlights are
Michelangelo`s double-sided chalk and pen and ink drawing of 1508 showing decoration schemes for the Sistine Chapel ceiling; Russet Landscape, a color monoprint by
Edgar Degas from the 1890s from a small group of brilliant and unique abstractions of the French countryside; and
Charles Sheeler`s Wheels of 1939, one of the rarest and best known photographic images in the world. The exhibition will showcase the full breadth and range of the museum`s strongest holdings from 1500s Europe through the art of today.