New York, August 22, 2007 - Forum Gallery’s fall season opens with The Fine Art of Drawing: Modern & Contemporary Works on Paper, offering an extensive examination of works on paper created in the last eighty years.

The geographical diversity of the Modern artists featured in the exhibition provides a key to the vast reach of the modernist movement at its height, and how modernism was presented in different parts of the globe. The work of Miguel Covarrubias, working in Mexico, overlaps with the time period in which Ilya Bolotowsky was drawing in Russia, Salvador Dali was turning the art world upside-down in Spain, and Auguste Herbin was experimenting with cubism in France.

The trials undertaken by the modernists paved the way for many of the styles and techniques explored and expanded upon by contemporary artists working now. The exhibition presents an expansive diversity of techniques: pastel, charcoal, graphite, pencil, ink, watercolor, conte crayon, and silverpoint all on paper.

The exhibition will feature modern works by Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938), Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981), Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Salvador Dali (1904-1989), James Daugherty (1887-1974), John Graham (1886-1961), Chaim Gross (1904-1991), George Grosz (1893-1959), Auguste Herbin (1882-1960, Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), Jules Pascin (1885-1930), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), Joseph Stella (1877-1946), and Max Weber (1881-1961).

Contemporary artists include William Bailey, Steven Assael, Robert Bauer, William Beckman, Kent Bellows (1949-2005), Robert Cottingham, Paul Fenniak, Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000), Susan Hauptman, Jules Kirschenbaum (1930-2000), Michael Leonard, David Levine, Jane Lund, Alan Magee, G. Daniel Massad, Richard Maury, Craig McPherson, Anthony Mitri and Oleg Vassiliev.