TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, FLORIDA HENRI MATISSE:MASTER OF LINE AND LIGHT

An exhibition of Matisse Prints at the new Tampa Museum of Arts, Florida. Examples of many types of printmaking: intaglio: engraving, chine colle, drypoint, aquatint, relief: lithography, woodcut, linoleum.  My favourite is the linoleum.


Head of a Woman, Mascaron, 1938
Relief, Linoleum

Matisse Late Career Portrait Prints 1940s
Lift-ground aquatint

Matisse Woodcut











All pictures taken from review article by Lennie Bennett, St Petersburg Times, Feb 14, 2010 (Edmund D. Fountain, photos)