“Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” which opens Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, is MoMA doing what it does best. The breathtaking show of more than 135 works — primarily conté drawings, along with ...

George Seurat: The Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art October 28,2007 - January 7, 2008 One of the many extraordinary aspects of Seurat’s conté crayon drawings is that they make us newly appreciate ...

Everyone knows about Georges Seurat. His vision of weekend leisure on the island of La Grand Jatte has entered the public consciousness in a way that few images ever do, endlessly reproduced, co-opted ...

This comprehensive exhibit of drawings by Georges Seurat (1859–91) reveals an artist redefining painting amid the hurly-burly of early modernism. In the late 1870s—an age ...

Forty years later, that canvas — Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884” — entered the collection […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 40°F.

The late great Georges Seurat is known in the U.S. very largely as the painter of one picture—his big Sunday afternoon scene showing some 40 figures taking their ease ... Art: Secrets of Seurat.

Less known but of no less importance was Georges Seurat, born in 1859, who made it his goal to weld science and art into a technique of dot, dab and stitch strokes that would not only challenge ...

Narrator: Georges Seurat was born in Paris, in 1859 and started drawing when he was in school. In the school library, he found a book about drawing. This book inspired Seurat to look at art in a ...