Highlights and some more recent acquisitions from the Works on Paper Collection will go on view in the John Howett Gallery beginning January 24, 2009. The exhibition will show the range and variety of this collection with prints, drawings, and photographs dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

Outstanding works by printmakers will include three scenes from Albrecht Dürer’s Engraved Passion, a lifelike portrait by Hendrick Goltzius of his mentor Dirck Coornhert, and the Virgin and Child in the Clouds by Rembrandt. Drawings will be represented by works by such masters as Palma il Giovane and Eugène Delacroix. Photographs will include images by the nineteenth-century pioneers David

Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson and by twentieth-century greats such as Eugène Atget, Paul Strand, and the recently re-discovered rural Arkansas portraitist Mike Disfarmer. Finally, one of the latest additions to the collection—a working drawing for an unrealized project by Robert Smithson, the eminent land artist best known for the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, Utah—will be on display for the first time.

Since works on paper are very fragile and cannot remain on long-term view, this will be a unique opportunity to see the highlights of this collection all together at one time. Members should make a point of coming to see these treasures from the collection that is the best-kept secret of the Carlos Museum. The exhibition will remain on view through May 17, 2009.