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Fine Lines

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The first survey of the Brooklyn Museum’s internationally renowned collection of drawings and works on paper
  • 02 July 2013
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The first survey of the Brooklyn Museum's world-class collection of drawings, Fine Lines highlights more than one hundred masterworks by some of the most important names in American art from the last three centuries. Among more than seventy artists included are John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley.

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Price: $59.95
Pages: 248
Publisher: D Giles Limited
Imprint: GILES
Publication Date: 02 July 2013
Trim Size: 10.00 X 8.25 in
ISBN: 9781907804144
Format: Hardcover
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Karen A. Sherry is curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and was formerly associate curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Caitlin Jenkins is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paper Conservation at the Brooklyn Museum.
Caroline Gillaspie is a research assistant, American Art, at the Brooklyn Museum
Table of Contents
– Foreword
– Preface and Acknowledgments
Catalogue
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments

Catalogue
Introduction and entries by Karen A. Sherry, with contributions by Caroline Gillaspie
Recording Anatomy
Fashioning Character
Portraying Personalities
Telling Tales
Exploring Nature
Observing the Built Environment

The Conservator’s Eye: Examining a Collection by Caitlin Jenkins

Glossary of Drawing Materials and Conservation Techniques by Caitlin Jenkins
Selected Bibliography
Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees
Index of Catalogue Works