"Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, from the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art"
2000-10-22 until 2001-02-25
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, USA

More than 120 original prints for posters, portfolios, illustrated books and journals, and song sheets will represent the many manifestations of artists' printed images in late 19th-century France. Twenty-two important drawings and watercolors related to prints in the exhibition will also be on display. Primarily selected from the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, the exhibition will feature works by 28 artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Gauguin.

Bonnard's graphic works will be represented in depth, including his magnificent four-panel color-lithographic folding screen, Promenade des Nourrices, Frise des Fiacres (Nursemaids' Promenade, Frieze of Carriages) (1895), and a delightful music primer for children, Petit solfège illustré (published 1893). In addition to published editions of the music primer, nine of the Jacksons' marvelous preparatory watercolors for the book's illustrations will be on view.

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