RISD Museum to Present Exhibit on Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris

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RISD Museum to Present Exhibit on Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris

Albert Besnard, Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), 1887. Mary B. Jackson Fund. RISD Museum.
The RISD Museum is set to present their newest exhibit titled “Altered States: Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris.”

The exhibit will be on view through December 3, 2017.

The Exhibit

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The exhibition was organized by Britany Salsbury, former Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, as the culminating project of her RISD Museum Fellowship. 

She is currently the associate curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum and a specialist in late-19th-century French prints.

"The RISD Museum was the perfect place to learn more about technical aspects of 19th-century etching. Working with printmakers to organize the exhibition and associated publication led me to look at a research topic that has long been of interest to me in a new way,” said Salsbury.

 "It is always exciting to see the scholarship of our Mellon Fellows applied to the Museum's collection and presented to the public through exhibitions and publications. Altered States highlights a collection strength in a uniquely RISD manner by looking closely at technique to understand the motivations of the artists, their subject matter, and the relationships between them at this particular time and place,” said Jan Howard, the Museum's Chief Curator, and Houghton P. Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. 

The exhibition features works on paper by well-known artists such as Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, as well as those lesser known today, including Albert Besnard and Henri Guérard, and several new acquisitions to the RISD Museum's collection.


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