Palmer Museum of Art Announces Exhibition American Drawings from the Permanent Collection

August 30, 2007

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The Palmer Museum of Art announces that the exhibition, American Drawings from the Permanent Collection, will be on view at the museum September 11-November 25, 2007.

This exhibition features drawings by American artists working in the second half of the twentieth century. As might be expected with this medium, fully half are preliminaries for larger efforts, and several-including two studies by Jerome Witkin and a figural sketch by Lennart Anderson-relate to paintings in the Palmer Museum's collection. Most of the drawings adhere rather firmly to realism, although Michael Klezmer's Sand stretches this definition well along toward the minimalist camp. Among the other works in the exhibition are landscapes by Robert Crowl, Alan Magee, and former Penn State professor Bruce Shobaken, and still lifes by Paul Wiesenfeld, Julio Larraz, and George Staempfli.

Fore more information, please contact Patrick McGrady, Charles V. Hallman Curator, at 814-865-7673 or pjm19@psu.edu.

Contact: Ali Bradley, 814-863-9182, abradley@psu.edu