Works on Paper in the MFAH Collections
Eric Fischl, Year of the Drowned Dog, 1983, sugar-lift aquatint and soft-ground etching with scraping, drypoint, and roulette in colors on wove paper, edition III/X, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980–1994, Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund. © Eric Fischl
Meade Brothers, Samuel Houston, 1851, daguerreotype, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. in honor of the firm's 75th anniversary.
Paul Outerbridge, Advertisement for George W. Ide Company, 1922, platinum print.
The Target Collection of American Photography, gift of Target Stores
Edgar Degas, Woman Drying Herself, c. 1905, charcoal and pastel on tracing paper, mounted by the artist on wove paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection, gift of Sarah Campbell Blaffer.
The collection of works on paper at the MFAH encompasses a broad range of collecting areas within the Museum. In addition to providing access to the MFAH collections of Photography and Prints and Drawings, the Anne Wilkes Tucker Photography Study Center also offers visitors the opportunity to view works of art from the collections of Asian art, Latin American art, Modern and Contemporary art, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
Appointments can be made by contacting studycenter@mfah.org or 713.639.7751. Please call or email at least three weeks in advance for an appointment.