“Line: Making the Mark”
Sol LeWitt, Untitled, from the series Work from Instructions, 1971, lithograph, edition 20/25, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and an anonymous donor. © 2015 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Jasper Johns, Cicada, 1979, screenprint in colors on laid paper, artist’s proof 1/10, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Josef Albers, Segments, 1934, linoleum cut on Japanese paper, edition 7/35, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in honor of Mr. Alvin S. Romansky. © 2015 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Brice Marden, Hydra, Summer 1990, I of V, 1990, ink, gouache, and watercolor on Arches Satine wove paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Charles Engelhard Foundation in honor of Louisa Stude Sarofim. © 2015 Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Title
Line: Making the Mark
Dates
December 12, 2014–March 22, 2015
Overview
With the advent of Modernism in the 20th century, line became its own definitive subject for artists, who no longer used it merely for representational purposes. Line: Making the Mark explores the sundry ways that artists, since that historic shift, make marks—either directly, by pressing pencil to paper or brushing ink onto a surface; or indirectly, such as drawing on stone, carving into wood, or etching into metal, and then transferring the marks to another surface through the printmaking process. Selected from the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this exhibition presents some 50 drawings and prints by artists including Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Sam Messenger, Joan Mitchell, and Barnett Newman.
Location
Cameron Foundation Gallery
Audrey Jones Beck Building
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
5601 Main Street
Media Contacts
Mary Haus, Whitney Radley, Laine Lieberman, and Vanessa Ramirez-Sparrow
MFAH Communications
vramirez-sparrow@mfah.org / 713.639.7554