Comprising more than 23,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and Asian scroll paintings, works on paper represent the largest area of concentration within the Museum's collection. Due to the light and atmospheric sensitivity of these media, artworks must be exhibited on a rotating basis and are housed in the Works on Paper Center. Access is provided to scholars, curators, collectors, and others with a legitimate need to study collection material, by appointment.

Drawings

The drawing collection is one in which the Museum's directors and principal patrons have taken a deep personal interest since the Museum's founding in 1941, resulting in gifts and acquistions of outstanding quality and international significance. Representing drawings from the 17th-century to the present, the collection's strengths include superb examples of the modern French masters as well a range of European, American and Latin American modernist works. Unusual among these is a group of works by British early 20th-century artists working in Vorticism, Surrealism and the Neo-Romanticism.

Selected works from our Works on Paper Drawings collection:

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click to enlarge	Luca Cambiaso Italian, 1527-1585 The Infant Jesus Taking His First Steps, ca. 1570 Pen and ink, mounted on cardboard 11 3/4 x 9 1/8" Gift of the Women's Board 1964.13	click to enlarge	Annibale Carracci Italian, 1560-1609 Venus in the Clouds, n.d. Black and pink chalk, pen with brown ink on blue paper 9 x 6 3/4" Bequest of John and Alice Steiner 2004.34
click to enlarge	Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot French, 1796-1875 Trees at Musigny, 1840-45 Pencil on paper 16 x 11 5/8" Museum purchase 1959.44	click to enlarge	Nathaniel Dance English, 1735-1811 Portrait of the Hon. John Jeffreys Pratt (1759-1840), Son of Lord Camden, ca. 1767 Charcoal and black Pencil on paper 8 3/4 x 6 3/4" Museum purchase, The Suzette and Eugene Davidson Fund 1983.34
click to enlarge	Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917 Ballet Dancer Resting (Danseuse Debout S'Appuyant Contre un Portant), ca. 1900-1905 Charcoal on surfaced cardboard 19 5/8 x 12 1/4" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1941.2.7	click to enlarge	Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917 Two Standing Horses (originally "Study of Two Horses"), ca. 1880 Charcoal 9 3/4 x 12 3/4" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1941.2.9
click to enlarge	Eugene Delacroix French, 1798-1863 Lion with Cubs Consuming a Gazelle, n.d. Watercolor 5 3/8 x 10 1/8" Bequest of Margaret Mallory 1998.50.27	click to enlarge	Henry Fuseli Swiss (active England), 1747-1825 The Passing of the Angel of Death, n.d. (18th-19th c.) Wash (brush and wash heightened with white on heavy rag paper) S20 7/8 x 23 1/2" Museum purchase 1961.71
click to enlarge	Maerten van Heemskerck Dutch, 1498-1574 The Story of Achan, Joshua VII, 1566 Pen and brown ink on paper 11 1/2 x 15 3/4" Museum purchase 1965.37	click to enlarge ©Wyndham Lewis Estate	Percy Wyndham Lewis English, 1884-1957 Portrait of Ezra Pound, ca. 1920 Charcoal and black grease pencil on paper 11 1/2 x 9" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1941.2.16
click to enlarge	Jean-Francois Millet French, 1814-1875 Study for L'Attente (The Parents of Tobias Awaiting his Return), ca. 1853-1854 recto: Charcoal on double faced blue-gray paper 10 5/8 x 12" Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edward L. Tuohy 1959.31	click to enlarge	Jean-Francois Millet French, 1814-1875 Study for L'Attente (The Parents of Tobias Awaiting his Return), ca. 1853-1854 verso: Charcoal on double faced blue-gray paper 10 5/8 x 12" Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edward L. Tuohy 1959.31
click to enlarge	Berthe Morisot French, 1841-1895 On the Beach at Fécamp (Sur La Plage), 1874 Pastel on gray-brown Arches paper on stretcher 15 1/8 x 23 5/8" Bequest of Katharine Dexter McCormick in memory of her husband, Stanley McCormick 1968.20.1	click to enlarge	Berthe Morisot French, 1841-1895 Marthe Givaudan, 1892 Pastel on canvas 25 1/2 x 21 1/2" Gift of Dwight and Winifred Vedder 2006.54.9
click to enlarge	Joseph Pennell American, 1860-1926 Columbia Heights in Snow, n.d. Watercolor on paper 12 7/8 x 10" Gift Mr. and Mrs. Julian Ganz, Jr. 1973.50.1	click to enlarge ©Succession Picasso, Artist's Rights Society	Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973 Woman with a Pitcher, 1919 Pencil over charcoal on paper 25 3/4 x 19 1/8" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1946.10.1
click to enlarge	Odilon Redon French, 1840-1916 Le Coeur Revelateur, 1883 Charcoal on brown paper 15 3/4 x 13 1/8" Museum purchase 1959.39	click to enlarge	Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890-1918 Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Edith, 1915 Pencil on paper 18 x 12 1/4" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1957.8.2
click to enlarge	Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890-1918 The Embrace, 1915 Charcoal and gouache on cream colored Japanese paper 12 3/4 x 17 3/4" Bequest of Margaret Mallory to the Ala Story Collection 1998.50.78	click to enlarge	Unknown (formerly attributed to Pieter Brueghel, The Younger) Dutch, 17th c. A Mill by a Stream, n.d. Watercolor Sheet 6 5/8 x 13 1/2" Museum purchase 1959.40

Prints

The Museum's 19th-century print collection chronicles the proliferation of early French lithography in holdings of over 4,000 works, presenting an opportunity for insight into the highly-charged politics and culture of the period. Other areas of particular strength include turn-of-the-century American posters, featuring the works of Lucien Metivet, Alphonse Mucha, Maxfield Parrish, and Gustave Klimt; the documents and prints of Felicien Rops; and the artists of the 19th-century Etching Revival, a movement designed to elevate the medium to the same artistic stature as painting and sculpture.

Selected works from our Works on Paper Prints collection:

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click to enlarge	Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen French, 1859-1923 Le Chat Noir Lithograph-poster 24 1/4 x 15 5/8" Museum purchase, European Deaccessioning fund 1991.17	click to enlarge	Paul Cezanne French, 1839-1906 Les Baigneurs (The Large Bathers), ca. 1898 Color lithograph on laid paper Sheet 16 x 20" Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Mackinley Helm 1955.20.1
click to enlarge	Leopoldo Mendez Mexican, 1903-1969 I Thirst, 1948 Wood engraving on wove antique white paper Sheet 15 1/4 x 19 7/8" Museum purchase 1995.42.4	click to enlarge	Mokuchu Urushibara (Yoshijuro) Japanese (active England), 1888-1953 Dawn, n.d. Color woodblock Sheet 11 5/8 x 16 3/4" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. T. Frame-Thomson 1979.31.3
click to enlarge	Antonio Canal (Canaletto) Italian, 1697-1768 The Portico with the Lantern Etching/second state 11 7/8 x 17" Gift of William A. Gumberts in honor of Robert M. Light 1979.9.11	click to enlarge	Felix Hilaire Buhot French, 1847-1898 Westminister Palace, London, 1884 Etching Sheet 13 x 16 3/4" Gift of Arthur and Yolanda Steinman 1985.50.10