Color Field Painting - Sculpture - African American Art - Figurative Expressionism
Old Master and Modern Drawings and Prints - Pattern and Decoration
Photography

An ongoing initiative has been the acquisition of works on paper from 1500 to the present and from cultures around the world. Works by Durer, Rembrandt, Goya, Auguste Renoir, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacommetti, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Sam Gilliam, Roy Lichtenstein, and Laylah Ali are part of the museum's collection. By collecting works on paper, the museum is able to provide numerous illustrations of ideas, influences, historic events, and popular trends. The opportunity for their display is severely limited in the current small Works on Paper Gallery. The new galleries will more than quadruple the exhibition space and include better lighting.

 

Albrecht Durer (German, 1471-1528)
Nemesis, 1501-02
Engraving, 13 1/8 x 9 ¼ inches
Gift of John F. Wolfram, 64.24

 

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1609-1669)
Self Portrait and Figure Studies, 1632
Etching, 3 7/8 x 4 inches
MSU purchase, 60.1.11

 

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828)
The Moors Spear a Bull in the Open, 1815
Etching and aquatint, 7 7/8 x 12 5/16 inches
MSU purchase, funded by the Class of 1923, 74.4

 

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Reverie, 1965
Screenprint, 27 x 22 15/16 inches
Gift of Avis Butler in memory of Alexander Butler, 96.23.1

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