Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking
Details, clockwise from top left: Head of a Young Boy, about 1539–40, Parmigianino. Pen and ink. Getty Museum; The Holy Family, about 1591, Pieter de Jode I after Bartholomeus Spranger. Engraving. The Art Institute of Chicago. Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds, 2023.218; Portrait of a Man, about 1607, Christoffel van Sichem after Hendrick Goltzius. Woodcut. Getty Research Institute
In Europe, drawing and printmaking had rich interconnected histories evolving from the 15th century—when drawing and printing rose to prominence—to the 19th, when photography and notions of originality significantly altered their relationship. This major loan exhibition tells the story of how artists worked creatively on paper, crossing boundaries between media and challenging traditions. Bringing the exhibition’s themes to the present, a display of LA-based artist Toba Khedoori’s works examines how drawing and printmaking intersect in her practice.
This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.
Toba Khedoori's works are on display in Museum North Pavilion, Plaza Level as part of this exhibition.
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The exhibition is co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Selected Works
A Right Hand
1588, Hendrick Goltzius. Pen and ink. Teylers Museum, Haarlem
The Creation of Adam
ca. 1645–50, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Monotype. The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of an anonymous donor; purchased with funds provided by Dr. William D. and Sara R. Shorey, and Mr. and Mrs. George B. Young, 1985.1113. Photo: Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago
Pedro Romero Killing a Bull That He Has Subdued
ca. 1816, Francisco de Goya. Red chalk. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum purchase with funds donated by the Frederick J. Kennedy Memorial Foundation. Photo © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Judith
1560, Maarten van Heemskerck. Pen and ink. Getty Museum
Studies of Noses
1608, Odoardo Fialetti. Etching. In Fialetti, Il vero modo et ordine per dissegnar tutte le parti et membra del corpo humano [. . .], Venice, 1608. Getty Research Institute
Death Strangling a Warrior
1597, Jacopo Ligozzi. Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, on paper washed in brown. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1909. Photo: The Morgan Library & Museum
Landscape with Rocks
ca. 1868–76, George Sand. Watercolor and opaque watercolor. The Art Institute of Chicago. Julius Lewis Endowment Fund, 2022.332. Photo: Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (large branches)
2025, Toba Khedoori. Lithograph. Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. © 2025 Toba Khedoori and Gemini G.E.L., LLC. Photo courtesy of Angel Xotlanihua
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