Drawings & Prints

The Museum’s collection of drawings and prints includes works on paper from the sixteenth century to the present. The collection consists predominantly of works by 20th-century American artists.

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Are you staring out the window and watching the rain roll in? “Silver Windows” was created at a time of transition in the career of artist Miriam Schapiro. After working as part of the Abstract Expressionist art scene in New York City in the 1950s, in the early 1960s Schapiro began to shift towards making more geometric works. In 1967, Schapiro moved to California, where she met fellow artist Judy Chicago, with whom she formed the Feminist Art Program in 1970. This work is part of Schapiro’s “Sixteen Windows” series. At first it seems that the windows in this work have been blocked and one cannot see beyond them. In fact, the silver interiors were meant to represent mirrors, enabling Schapiro to reflect on herself as an artist. In 1972, Schapiro, Chicago, and their students created an installation called “Womanhouse” in a condemned Hollywood mansion. Schapiro’s contribution to this feminist art cooperative was a work called “Dollhouse,” a collaboration with Sherry Brody, her teaching assistant. On the top floor of their dollhouse (second picture), Schapiro and Brody built an artist’s studio. On the easel in that studio is “Silver Windows.” #womenshistorymonth #MyOKCMOA #OKCMOAMovingVision Credit: Miriam Schapiro (American, 1923–2015) “Silver Windows,” 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 50 in. (152.4 × 127 cm), Collection of Beau R. Ott. SL.2021.2.4.1. Miriam Schapiro (American, 1923-2015), “Dollhouse,” 1972, Wood and mixed media, 79¾ x 82 x 8½ in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Gene Davis Memorial Fund, 1997.112A-B.

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You’ve got less than a month to see “Moving Vision!” Looking back (😉), you’ll regret not visiting this wildly imaginative exhibition! Photo: @bibbidibreea #MyOKCMOA

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Optical illusion was nothing new to painting, from the rediscovery of linear and atmospheric perspective during the Renaissance to the experiments of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the late nineteenth century. Op art emerged in very different circumstances, coming at a time when abstraction was synonymous with serious art. With new materials like acrylic, Plexiglas, and aluminum, Kinetic artists broke from traditional marble or bronze sculpture. Suspending and automating their objects, sculptures were no longer fixed in space but could move and respond to the environment they shared with the viewer. “Moving Vision” surveys more than two decades of Op and Kinetic art, featuring the founder of Kinetic art, Alexander Calder; influential Op artist Victor Vasarely; and other internationally celebrated artists. #MyOKCMOA

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