June Issue 2000
Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Features Exhibit of American Drawings
The exhibition, Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, from June 25 through Aug. 13. This exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Philip Brewer of Columbus, GA, is comprised of over 100 American works-on-paper, including pencil drawings, silver point, gouaches, watercolors and monotypes. Visitors to the museum will have the opportunity to see a full spectrum of American drawings, from classical studies for great history paintings of the l9th century to startling contemporary works of the 20th century.
Among the many artists represented in the exhibition are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Philip Pearlstein and Benjamin West.
Through drawings, the viewer can experience the artist's touch and style - the hand of the artist - and thus the essence of the work. "Beginning with the Italian Renaissance, drawing has formed a basis for all of the visual art," says Donald Keyes, former curator of paintings at the Georgia Museum of Art, the organizer of the exhibition. "This was no less true for American artists, particularly painters. Whether they created quasi-scientific documents, like the early landscape painters in New England and soon thereafter far west or romantic imagery, the making of drawings and sketches was a universally accepted operating mode for all trained American artists."
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