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August 15, 1969

Werner Drewes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist 1968.9.2.

“Four Decades of Woodcuts by Werner Drewes” opens at the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Drewes (1899-1985) was a German-American expressionist artist who emigrated to the United States in 1930. The 36 prints on exhibit, most of them brightly colored, were chosen from some 300 in the museum’s collection. His set of 10 woodcuts entitled “It Can’t Happen Here,” rendered in 1934, are among the earliest totally abstract prints made in this country.

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Posted: 15 August 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.