Leaving a Mark: The Winston and Ada Eason Collection of “Monuments of American Graphic Arts”

Second Floor
March 1 - Oct. 14, 2007

Leaving a Mark will exhibit twenty-eight nineteenth and twentieth-century prints from theWinston and Ada Eason Collection of “Monuments of American Graphic Arts.” Instumental in ounding the museum, the Easons began collecting various types of artworks in the late-1940s and gifted this print collection between 1969 and 1971. With a wide variety of prints, such as lithographs, engravings, woodcuts, and aquatints, the exhibit includes well-known artists John James Audubon, Childe Hassam, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Sloan, Winslow Homer, Jack Levine, Mary Cassatt, Lyonel Feininger, Grant Wood, Stuart Davis, and Thomas Hart Benton. Highlights are Whistler’s Rotherhithe, Davis’s Barber Shop Chord, and Benton’s Frankie and Johnnie.