"This book consists of pictures and essays : pictures of one hundred modern drawings, broadly defined as works on paper, in The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and essays on the subject of each of these drawings and, collectively, of the modern drawing itself and its place in modern art." -- from interior flap. Text by John Elderfeld. Artists include Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, Lawrence Atkinson, Max Beckmann, Umberto Boccioni, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Lovis Corinth, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Paul Delvaus, Robert Delaunay, Jean Delville, Charles Demuth, André Derain, Richard Diebenkorn, Otto Dix, Theo van Doesburg, Arthur G. Dove, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Alexandra Exeter, Lyonel Feininger, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Julio González, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Juan Gris, George Grosz, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Franz Kline, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Alfred Kubin, Frantisek Kupka, Mikhail Larionov, Fernard Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Man Ray, Franz Marc, John Marin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Robert Motherwell, Emil Nolde, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Max Pechstein, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Christian Rohlfs, Mark Rothko, Georges Rouault, Egon Schiele, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Seurat, Gino Severini, Charles Sheeler, David Smith, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Vesnin. Printed in color and black-and-white.