“The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists” features over 140 works created by artists in varying conditions of imprisonment, including the Konzentrationslager, or concentration camps, formed by the Nazi government during World War II. . Alongside Max Ernst and Hans Bellmer, artist Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, known professionally as Wols, was detained at the Camp des Milles in Aix-en-Provence. Wols began his artistic career when he enrolled as a photography student at the Reimann School of Art and Design, and for several years after exhibited his paintings in prestigious Parisian galleries. Wols managed to escape Camp des Milles in 1940, living in hiding near Marseilles for the remainder of the war. . “The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists” is on view in our Main Gallery and Drawing Room until January 5, 2020. Throughout the run of the exhibition, admission to The Drawing Center will be FREE (Wed - Sun, 12pm - 6pm | Thurs, 12pm - 8pm)⁣ . Image: Wols, “Unti...