Delaware Art Museum
Home to art schools, galleries, museums, and makers, the city is a vibrant space for artistic creation and exchange. This exhibition showcases 47 drawings and prints inspired by cities including New York, Paris, and Wilmington, Delaware.
Dating from 1875 through 2007, these works of art capture grand boulevards, side alleys, skyscrapers, and tenements, as well as the people that shape city life. Printmaking is at the heart of this exhibition, which features etchings, woodcuts, monotypes, lithographs, and screen prints. The City on Paper is drawn entirely from the collection of the Delaware Art Museum and presents new acquisitions and rarely exhibited works.
The show encompasses 45 artists including Peggy Bacon, Gertrude Howland Balch, Stuart Davis, Martin Lewis, John Marin, Mavis Pusey, John Sloan, Wayne Thiebaud, and J. A. M. Whistler.
IMAGES
Broad Street, New York, 1926 Adriaan Lubbers (1892–1954)Single-color lithographcomposition: 12 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (32.9 × 20.2 cm)sheet: 16 1/8 × 11 3/16 in. (41 × 28.4 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan
Break in the Thunderstorm, 1930PRINTMartin Lewis (1881–1962)Drypointplate: 12 5/16 × 9 7/8 in. (31.3 × 25.1 cm)sheet: 16 × 13 1/8 in. (40.6 × 33.3 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940
Broadway, 1929PRINTWilliam Charles McNulty (1884–1963)Etching and drypointplate: 10 9/16 × 7 1/4 in. (26.8 × 18.4 cm)sheet: 13 3/4 × 8 15/16 in. (34.9 × 22.7 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940.
Little Smithfield, 1875PRINTJames Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)Etchingplate: 5 5/16 × 3 13/16 in. (13.5 × 9.7 cm)sheet: 8 7/16 × 6 1/2 in. (21.4 × 16.5 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940.
6.1957-1St. Paul's, Lower Manhattan (Broadway, St. Paul's Church), 1912DRAWINGJohn Marin (1870–1953)Watercolor on papersheet: 18 3/16 × 14 3/4 in. (46.2 × 37.5 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of John L. McHugh, 1957.
West 23rd St., New York, c. 1906DRAWINGMarianna Sloan (1875–1954)Pastel and gouache on illustration boardsheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1975.
9.1979-90Provincetown, 1919PRINTWilliam Zorach (1889-1966)Linocutcomposition:10 11/16 × 8 5/8 in. (27.1 × 21.9 cm)sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (40.3 × 27.3 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1979.
Dark Alley, 1916PRINTJohn W. Winkler (1890–1979)Etching and drypointplate: 5 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (13.3 × 22.2 cm)sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (37.8 × 26 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1983.11.1984-68Kleinstadt, 19
Greetings from the House of Weyhe, 1928PRINTMabel Dwight (1876–1955)Single-color lithographcomposition: 7 × 8 3/8 in. (17.8 × 21.3 cm)sheet: 11 3/8 × 12 5/8 in. (28.9 × 32.1 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986.
13.1987-176Before the Storm, c. 1940PRINTGertrude Howland Balch (1909–1964)Etching and aquatint with hand applied watercolorplate: 7 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (20.2 × 24.8 cm)sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (24 × 31.8 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987.© Artist or Artist's Estate
Watts Street, c. 1922DRAWINGGeorge Luks (1867–1933)Watercolor on papersheet: 11 1/4 × 12 in. (28.6 × 30.5 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Constance A. Nichols, 1991.
16.2011-64Paris Street Scene, 1904PRINTRobert Henri (1865–1929)Etchingplate: 2 5/8 × 4 3/16 in. (6.7 × 10.6 cm)sheet: 5 7/16 × 8 3/8 in. (13.8 × 21.3 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2011.
City Street with Elevated Train Track, 1932DRAWINGHelen Farr Sloan (1911–2005)Graphite on envelope9 7/8 × 15 1/4 in. (25.1 × 38.7 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2015.© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
City Scene, 1910–20DRAWINGAbraham Walkowitz (1878–1965)Ink on paper9 11/16 × 6 in. (24.6 × 15.2 cm)Delaware Art Museum, Gift of John and Judy Gould, 2022.
