In this second installation of works on long-term loan from the collection of the Woodsby family, we examine the recurring motifs and techniques that came to define the Highwaymen’s unmistakable style and enduring legacy.
For the late nineteenth century, on the cusp of the abstractive trends of the twentieth, the celebrated master sculptor was Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Rodin’s bronze sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.
— Mark Rothko, “The Romantics Were Prompted,” 1947
From drawings and artist proof prints to intaglios, serigraphs, and even paper-based sculptures, the collection boasts works on paper from across time and around the globe that showcase the intimate hands of their artists.
