Graphics Survey Exhibition

About the exhibition

In 1985–1986, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. presented Graphics Survey Exhibition. The surviving exhibition history documents The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne (recto); The Artist's Sister Edma Seated Outdoors (verso) by Berthe Morisot. This drawing is dated 1872; its recorded medium is watercolor over graphite on laid paper (recto); graphite on laid paper (verso). The surviving exhibition history documents Japanese Artist at Work by Adolph Menzel. This drawing is dated 1886; its recorded medium is graphite on paperboard. The surviving exhibition history documents Midnight by Henry Fuseli. This drawing is dated 1765; its recorded medium is pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper. The surviving exhibition history documents The Life of Ignatius Loyola by Egid Quirin Asam. This drawing is dated 1748/1749; its recorded medium is brush and gray wash with watercolor over graphite, heightened with white, on laid paper. These documented works provide a partial reconstruction of the exhibition’s selection; the complete original checklist and additional loans remain unconfirmed.

Also recorded as: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.