Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts is on view through June 28 at The Drawing Center. This exhibition examines the notion of drawn portraiture from a live model. It provides unique readings of this influential genre of drawing within a contemporary context. As curator Brett Littman on Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts said: “When I started working with them [École des Beaux-Arts] on the show, I was primarily interested in finding some aspect of their collection to focus on and interpret in a contemporary way. [...] Beaux-Arts education was traditionally grounded in drawing from life. The criteria that we used to select the works were: gender, class, profession, clothing and fashion, and hand gestures. We generally tried to pick portraits where the gaze was frontal. We also chose portraits that we believed were drawn from live models, not from prints or from paintings.” To learn more about the inspiration and creation of this exhibition, read our catalog online at issuu.com....