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Corita Kent, pigeons flying, 1980s
Gift of Mrs. James Rush Beeler, 1996.008.013.

Works on Paper

Works on paper comprise approximately three-quarters of the Museum’s collection and include prints, drawings, and watercolors by many prominent American and contemporary artists. Highlights of this collection include 19th century prints and drawings by Julia Overing Boit, Samuel Colman, Currier & Ives, John Elliott, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, William Trost Richards, and James McNeill Whistler among others. In addition, the Museum owns 185 works by Winslow Homer, including one drawing, the rest are prints.

The Museum is also home to a large number of prints and drawings by noteworthy 20th and 21st century artists, such as Sigmund Abeles, Albert Alcalay, George Bellows, Varujan Boghosian, Caleb Cole, Mark di Suvero, George Condo, Charles Dana Gibson, Red Grooms, William Gropper, Philip Guston, Mags Harries, Pouran Jinchi, Corita Kent, Arghavan Khosravi, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Mayhew, Michael Mazur, Lloyd G. McNeill, Louise Nevelson, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, Ad Reinhardt, Mahler Ryder, Raphael Soyer, May Stevens, Chris Van Allsburg, and Andy Warhol. The Museum has significant holdings of works on paper by Francis Adams Comstock and prints by Joseph Norman. In addition, the Museum owns a number of contemporary prints and drawings by regional artists, such as Umberto Crenca, Mary Dondero, Elizabeth Duffy, Steven Easton, Jemison Faust, Alan Metnick, Jordan Seaberry, Kenn Speiser, Meredith Stern, and many others.

Arghavan Khosravi, Persepolis, 2017, Acrylic on inkjet print (of scanned images of artist's Iranian passport) on paper, Museum Purchase, 2018.006.001.

Alan Metnick, Europe Remembered, 1984, color screen print, Purchased through the Louise Ehrlich Memorial Fund, 2005.003.001.

Meredith Stern, Angry Women in Forever Deep Waters, 2013, Collage of linoleum block prints, woodblock prints, spray paint, coffee and ink staining, and handwritten history notes from artist’s 103 year-old cousin, Fannie Simonowsky, Purchased with funds provided by Dr. Joseph A. Chazan, 2017.001.001.

May Stevens, Big Daddy Paper Doll, 1971, Serigraph, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, 1973.001.020.

Joseph Norman, Untitled from the series “Wandering Muse,” 1990, Lithograph, Gift of Dr. Gerhard Constantine Meier, 2020.009.001.

Mags Harries, Untitled from the "Rhode Island School of Design Silk Screen Portfolio, April 1972," 1972, Color screen print, Gift of Alan Metnick, 2007.001.004.

Benjamin Curtis Porter, Portrait of Edith Cushing as a Child with her Dog, 1877, Black crayon on cardboard, Gift of Mr. Samuel Dushkin, 1950.001.001.

Pouran Jinchi, Victor, 2016, Graphite markings on Colourfix paper, Museum Purchase, 2018.008.002.

Fairfield Porter, Dog at the Door, 1971, Color lithograph, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, 1973.001.010.

Caleb Cole, The Language of Flowers, from the series “To Be Seen,” 2017, Collage of early 1900s postcards on archival pigment print from vintage photograph, Museum Purchase, 2017.008.001

Amano Kunihiro, [Three Black Birds], 1963, Woodblock print, Gift of Miss Priscilla Peckham, 1991.004.007.

Hasui Kawase, Moonlight at Kamo Lake, Sado Island, 1921, Color woodblock print, Gift of Mrs. Stanley C. (Eleanor) Hughes, 1946.001.001.

John La Farge, The Angel of Help, 1888-1889, Watercolor over graphite on paper, Gift of William and Alison Vareika, Timothy McGeary, and Christian Vareika, in memory of their son and brother, David Wesley Vareika, 1991.001.001.

Albert Alcalay, Continuity, 1965, Etching and watercolor on paper, Gift of Priscilla B. Peckham, 1991.004.015.

Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), pigeons flying, 1980s, Serigraph, Gift of Mrs. James Rush Beeler, 1996.008.013.