| Des Moines Art Center celebrates sesquicentennial of the Civil War with new print exhibition |
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DES MOINES, IA.- The Des Moines Art Center opened a print exhibition entitled Black White Gray Blue, which runs through January 29, 2012, in the Print Gallery. Dario Robleto: Survival Does Not Lie In The Heavens also opened on September 23, and will be on view through January 15, 2012, in the Anna K. Meredith Gallery. Black White Gray Blue features an unusual mix of historical and contemporary prints and works on paper from the Des Moines Art Center’s permanent collection, presenting works in which artists reveal and revisit the horrors of slavery in America; witness, depict, and interpret the War Between the States; and confront this nation’s ongoing legacy of racism. Artists in the exhibition include Robert Colescott, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Dario Robleto, and Kara Walker. Homer’s Civil War wood engravings, selected from the Art Center’s complete collection of his publish read full article
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