Since its founding in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art has amassed over seventeen thousand works on paper and photographs, with particular strengths in Japanese woodblock prints, American Modernism, and representations of Pittsburgh.
Reinaugurating a space first dedicated in 1974, Scaife Galleries A and B showcase a wide-ranging part of the collection that runs the gamut from rare 12th-century Buddhist woodcuts to engravings by Albrecht Dürer to contemporary digital photographs. It also takes the requirements for displaying paper-based artwork—briefer exhibitions and controlled lighting—as opportunities that afford greater curatorial experimentation and responsiveness.
