November 13, 2016–January 29, 2017 - The most iconic works by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, including a pair of hands drawing themselves and fish morphing into birds, are familiar to most people. This exhibition of 120 woodcuts, lithographs, mezzotints and drawings takes us deeper into both the literal and impossible worlds he created over a career that spanned five decades.
Drawn from the world’s second-largest private collection of Escher’s work, Reality and Illusion includes early figure drawings, lesser-known book illustrations, detailed Italian landscapes, the “tessellations” for which he became famous, and several examples of his signature architectural fantasies in which stairways seem to go both up and down.
Dates:November 13, 2016 11:00 am to January 29, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:500 University Ave., Rochester, New York 14607 , United States
Phone:585.276.8900
Contact:Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Website:http://mag.rochester.edu/exhibitions/m-c-escher-reality-and-illusion/