The City on Paper

Name: The City on Paper
Start: 2026-03-28T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-16T23:59:59-04:00

Mar 28, 2026 - Aug 16, 2026

Free with admission
Location: Galleries 11 & 12

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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.

Watts Street, c. 1922. George Luks (1867–1933). Watercolor on paper, sheet: 11 1/4 × 12 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Constance A. Nichols, 1991.

St. Paul's, Lower Manhattan (Broadway, St. Paul's Church), 1912. John Marin (1870–1953). Watercolor on paper, sheet: 18 3/16 × 14 3/4 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of John L. McHugh, 1957.

Provincetown, 1919. William Zorach (1889-1966). Linocut, composition: 10 11/16 × 8 5/8 inches, sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1979.

Broad Street, New York, 1926. Adriaan Lubbers (1892–1954). Single-color lithograph, composition: 12 15/16 × 7 15/16 inches, sheet: 16 1/8 × 11 3/16 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan.

Before the Storm, c. 1940. Gertrude Howland Balch (1909–1964). Etching and aquatint with hand applied watercolor, plate: 7 15/16 × 9 3/4 inches, sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 1/2 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987. © Artist or Artist's Estate.

Street Scene, c. 1905. Ethel Myers (1881–1960). Ink and graphite heightened with white on paper, sheet: 6 1/8 × 7 9/16 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Virginia Downes, 1961.

Break in the Thunderstorm, 1930. Martin Lewis (1881–1962). Drypoint, plate: 12 5/16 × 9 7/8 inches, sheet: 16 × 13 1/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940.

West 23rd St., New York, c. 1906. Marianna Sloan (1875–1954). Pastel and gouache on illustration board, sheet: 10 × 8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1975.

Salute, 1911. John Sloan (1871–1951). Ink, charcoal, and zinc white paint on paper, composition: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches, sheet: 15 × 14 1/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1991. © Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

City Scene, 1910–20. Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965). Ink on paper, 9 11/16 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of John and Judy Gould, 2022.

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Organizers & Sponsors

This exhibition was organized by the Delaware Art Museum with support from the Edgar A. Thronson Foundation Illustration Exhibition Fund. This organization is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.

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