Luminous: 50 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings at the Blanton

As part of a series of events organized in celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Luminous: 50 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings at the Blanton. On view June 8 – September 15, 2013, the exhibition highlights the breadth and depth of the museum’s collection of works on paper and provides a rare opportunity to see some of its finest examples displayed together for the first time.
Over the past five decades, the Blanton has built an encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings concentrating on three major areas: Latin American, European, and American. The museum holds works by masters Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Jasper Johns, and many others. Comprised of several major gifts and purchases — including the private collections of Leo Steinberg, John and Barbara Duncan, and James and Mari Michener, as well as nearly 400 Old Master drawings acquired as part of the Suida-Manning Collection — the Blanton’s collection has an international reputation for its extraordinary works on paper and serves as a resource for art historians and other researchers in the field. Luminous signals the power of prints and drawings in fostering scholarship, igniting the imagination, and instilling wonder.