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Title:	Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints
Date:	9/27/2024 - 1/5/2025
Address:	Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 S. Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Location:	Chapel Hill, NC
Hours:	Wednesday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday: 1pm - 5pm, Second Friday: 10am - 9pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://ackland.org/exhibition/durer-to-matisse-400-years-of ...
Contact Info:	919-966-5736

Details:

Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints offers an exceptional opportunity to view nearly 100 prints by some of the most recognized artists active from the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, beginning and ending with two towering giants of printmaking—Albrecht Dürer and Henri Matisse. The Ackland Art Museum holds North Carolina’s largest and most comprehensive collections of art on paper, but due to light sensitivity, these works can only be displayed for short periods. Works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and many others showcase the craftsmanship, expressive power, and aesthetic beauty achieved through printmaking. While this exhibition emphasizes high quality and excellent condition, rather than presenting a comprehensive history of the medium, the prints on view do chart the progression of art historical movements from the Renaissance to Cubism and beyond, through woodcuts, engravings, etchings, aquatints, mezzotints, and lithographs. Some newly acquired and never before displayed at the Ackland, and others off view for decades, these prints reveal how the use of black ink, paper, and various printmaking techniques can create a wealth of innovative and technically stunning works of art.