Once Upon A Time: Prints and Drawings That Tell Stories June 21, 2012

Telling stories through pictures, specifically with prints and drawings, is the subject of this exhibition organized from the DIA collection. It includes selections from many familiar series, portfolios, and books, as well as several examples that have rarely or never been seen at the museum. Included are David Hockney's etchings to Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, three volumes of Moby Dick with illustrations by Norman Rockwell, a copy of the 15th-century Nuremberg Chronicle, Wassily Kandinsky's Klange, Henri Matisse's Parsiphal, Jim Dine's Picture of Dorian Gray, and many more European and American works on paper from a variety of eras. This exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts.