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National Gallery of Art Receives Gift of 'The Nazi Drawings' by Mauricio Lasansky
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The National Gallery of Art issued the following news release: Mauricio Lasansky (1914-2012) was an exceptional artist and printmaker who played a key role in the American printmaking renaissance following World War II. Among his best-known works are The Nazi Drawings, an extraordinary series of 30 monumental individual drawings produced between 1961 and 1966 plus a drawing triptych made between 1963 and 1971. The entire suite has been given to the National Gallery of Art  more