Exhibition of drawings and prints by Louise Nevelson explores the artist`s works on paper
(Artdaily.org)

The Face in the Moon: Drawings and Prints by Louise Nevelson opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on July 20, 2018. Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s extensive holdings of her work, this exhibition presents a career-spanning selection of works on paper by Louise Nevelson (1899–1988). Nevelson emphasized her reliance on the processes of drawing and collage to create the monochromatic wooden sculptures for which she is best known. This exhibition is an opportunity to focus closely on her use of these processes in her works on paper, many of which, like her sculptures, involved building compositions out of unconventional or recycled materials. The human figure is at the center of Nevelson’s early line drawings, often depicted