Color Into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present

Exhibition catalogue for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Schiffer Publishing

By Furio Rinaldi, curator of drawings and prints for the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

From the FAMSF website::
Color into Line presents a powerful selection of masterpiece drawings done with pastel, one of the most versatile and adaptable media in art history. Spanning from the Renaissance to most recent artistic experimentations—from Rosalba Carriera to Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas to John Altoon and Wayne Thiebaud—the narrative highlights technical aspects with an emphasis on the design process behind the works. Drawn mostly from the Fine Arts Museums’ own holdings in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Museums’ department of works on paper, the exhibition celebrates the artistry of pastel through the richness of the Bay Area art collections with selected loans from local private collections and public institutions. Through a prominent array of works by female artists, the exhibition also sheds light on the key role women played in the development and evolution of pastel.

164 pages
8.5 x 9.75 inches