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Blog: Seeing the City on Paper
Left to right: “Salute,” 1911. John Sloan (1871-1951). Ink, charcoal, and zinc white paint on paper. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1991. © Delaware Art Museum. “Construction in Decline,” c.1970. Mavis Pusey (1928-2019). Ten-color screen print. Delaware Art Museum, Acquisition Fund, 2023. © Estate of Mavis Pusey.
March 6, 2026
The City on Paper exhibition highlights more than a century of urban life through prints and drawings, featuring artists from John Sloan to Mabel Dwight who captured everything from New York’s rapid growth and gritty construction sites to the quieter neighborhoods of Wilmington, celebrating how cities and the people who inhabit them continually shape one another.
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