EXHIBITION ITINERARY Naples Museum of Art Naples, Florida Visit Museum February 14 - May 18, 2003 International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC Visit Museum April 9 - July 25, 2004 CATALOGUE Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery by Wendy Wick Reaves et al. (2002; 256 pages) 55 color and 65 b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0-295-98267-5 Fifty graphic masterpieces representing the American artistic tradition from 1880 to the present day are showcased in Eye Contact. Reproduced as full-page color images, they range from portraits of Theodore Roosevelt by Charles Dana Gibson to Robert F. Kennedy by Roy Lichtenstein, and self-portraits by artists Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, and Jacob Lawrence. Essays discuss the changing nature of portrait drawings in the twentieth century and the intellectual developments that influenced artists' conceptualization of the figure. Hardcover, $60.00 Click here to order the catalog online from the University of Washington Press or call 1-800-441-4115 or 206-543-8870.

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