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Feature Essays: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Rooted in works from an IU teaching collection that dates back to 1896, our prints, drawings, and photographs collection has always been one of our largest holdings. In the 1960s, the museum established an important photography collection, which today includes the archives of Henry Holmes Smith, Art Sinsabaugh, and Jeffrey A. Wolin.

A cavalry of four horsemen ride in tight formation from left to right just above the ground. Beneath them lie the bodies of people being trampled and in one case swallowed by a monstrous disembodied head in the bottom left corner. Among the victims is a man wearing a hat and robes typically associated with a priest or bishop.
Albrecht Dürer: Apocalypse and Other Masterworks from Indiana University Collections
A black-and-white photograph depicts the entrance to a brick building, lined by travertine. Abovet eh front door, a sign reads 'the new bauhaus / AMERICAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN'
The New Bauhaus
A colorful horizontal photograph depicts an abstract design of intersecting floating grids and rectangles. The dominant colors of the shapes are purple, reds, and some yellowish-greens.
The Henry Holmes Smith Archive
A black-and-white image of a man's wearing a hat, who holds three stalks of wheat in one hand and looks away to the viewer's right.
Art in Hard Times: Regionalist Prints and the Great Depression
From Daumier to Toulouse-Lautrec: Icons of French Nineteenth-Century Lithography in the Collection of the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art

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