“Works on Paper by Werner Drewes,” curated by Drewes Fine Art
October 29 – November 30
Open Tuesdays – Fridays, 11AM-7PM; Saturdays, 11AM-8PM; and Sundays, 11AM-6PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 2, 5-8pm

After studying at the Bauhaus in Germany, Werner Drewes (1899-1985) emigrated to New York in 1930. He was one of the first artists to bring the creative principles of non-objective art to America. He was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists Group and one of the first to exhibit abstract art at the Guggenheim and MOMA. He encouraged a new genre of artists in New York City through Hayter’s Atelier 17 workshops, as a WPA Graphics program director, and as a professor at Columbia University. Later, he continued his teaching career at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, before returning to the east coast, where he spent his final years in Reston, Virginia. He continued to create, show, and teach, until his death in 1985.

This show will embrace works spanning his Bauhaus studies to his retirement years where he continued to “play with shape, form and color” in the creations of stunning abstract collages. No Drewes show would be complete without an assemblage of his multi-plate, textured woodcuts. This show will also include pastels and watercolors never exhibited. We are proud to share this art with you, from one of our most formidable American Abstract Artists.

Come to our special presentation on the Atelier 17 Project. Ann Shafer, independent curator and past curator of the Baltimore Art Museum, will be discussing the exciting plans for celebrating the 100th year of the Atelier 17 Project, a major printing movement brought to the U.S. from France during the 1940s. The event will take place Saturday, November 9 from 4-6pm.

For further questions or to arrange a private showing, collage, or print workshop, contact: Karen E. D. Seibert at 301.346.9033, [email protected].