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Prints and Drawings

Ahmanson Building, Level 3 : Artworks on view

The collection comprises about thirty thousand works from Western European and America, ranging from some of the earliest examples of printing, in the fifteenth century, to contemporary graphics; and with a special emphasis on Southern California artworks since 1960. Highlights include works by Dürer, Rembrandt, and Goya; Delacroix, Manet, and Toulouse-Lautrec; and Matisse, Picasso, and the Americans John Marin, John Sloan, and Edward Hopper. Works not on view may be viewed by appointment.

Benedetto Luti

Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer
1504
Christ Presented to the People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1655
The Postman Joseph Roulin
Vincent Van Gogh
1888
After the Hunt
Winslow Homer
1892

Q&A with Britt Salveson

Britt Salvesen came to the museum earlier this month from the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, where she was director and chief curator (as well as organizing curator of New Topographics, on view now at LACMA)...

New Acquisitions: Three Works on Paper by Kirchner, Heckel, and Radziwill

Every autumn I go to Print Fair in New York, an amazing display of prints and drawings brought for sale by roughly 100 print dealers from around the world. It’s like being  a kid in a candy store where you are allowed to open frames, use a magnifying glass, and sometimes even touch artworks to scrutinize every detail if you’re really serious about buying...