The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition

About the exhibition

Corcoran Gallery of Art presented The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition in 1980. The exhibition’s stated focus joined American figure drawing with the academic tradition. The documented selection includes studies for larger compositions and independently identified figure drawings. Exact surviving examples are William Merritt Chase’s The Model (c. 1888; pastel on wove paper mounted to stretched canvas) and Leon Kroll’s Two Women (1930s; charcoal on prepared paperboard). The surviving museum histories establish only part of the checklist; exact opening and closing days remain unverified.

Also recorded as: The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC