First Blush

First Blush presents 15 color drawings that are new to Mia’s collection or galleries. They range from a Swiss landscape from the early 1800s to an abstract composition from the 1950s. Some of the artists are prominent—Vincent van Gogh, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lyonel Feininger. Others may be less familiar. 

Each of these remarkable works represents the artist at an inspired moment in his or her career, an original voice captured with extraordinary facility in crayon, brush, or chalk. These remarkable works have come to Mia over the past few years as gifts, purchases, or long-term loans. Some have not been seen publicly for decades, if ever before.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website 

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853–1890; Old Woman Sewing, 1881. Watercolor and black chalk. Private collection