# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B3fm8RXFJ0r
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044330-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-10-11T21:59:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Now on view: “The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists” features more than 140 works produced over the course of two centuries by imprisoned artists from around the globe. Organized chronologically, the exhibition interprets the term “incarceration” broadly to mean any situation in which an individual is denied their freedom. This includes penal incarceration; imprisonment of combatants during wartime; systematic imprisonment by governments on the basis of political affiliation, gender, sexuality, race, or religion; as well as forced restriction of movement and involuntary imprisonment in psychiatric institutions.
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“The Pencil Is a Key” is on view through January 5, 2020. Admission to The Drawing Center will be FREE throughout the run of the exhibition.
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Images (left to right)
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Hubert Robert, “An Inmate of Saint-Lazare Prison,” 1794, Ink and graphite on paper, 10 1/4 x 13 inches (26 x 33 cm), Private collection, Photography by Kevin Noble
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Adolf Wölfli, “The Kander Valley in the Bernese Oberland,” 1926, Pencil and colored pencil on paper, 18 1/2 x 24 3/8 inches (47 x 61.9 cm), American Folk Art Museum, Blanchard-Hill Collection, Gift of M. Anne Hill and Edward V. Blanchard, Jr
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Ruth Asawa, “Sumo Wrestlers,” 1943, Watercolor on paper 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (26.7 x 36.8 cm), Private Collection, Artwork © Estate of Ruth Asawa, Courtesy David Zwirner
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Carlos Conde, “Untitled,” 1995, Pencil and colored pencil on envelope, 9 ½ x 4 ¼ inches (24.1 x 10.8 cm), Courtesy of Cavin-Morris Gallery, NYC
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