Marianne Elrick- Manley Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawing entitled A Trans-Atlantic-Modernist: Joaquin Torres-Garcia and His Contemporaries. The show opens to the public on January 15 and will be on view through January 30, 2016 as a part of Master Drawings week in New York at Meredith Ward Fine art, 44 East 74th Street, New York, New York. Gallery hours are 11am - 6 pm. Extended hours included Friday, January 22, 11-8 pm; and Sunday, January 24, 2-6pm. These hours will coincide with the hours of Master Drawings week.

The exhibition will include approximately 55 works on paper from private collections, some of which are for sale, by the Catalan/Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia and his contemporaries, including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Julio Gonzalez, Alexander Calder, Pablo Gargallo, Georges Vantongerloo, Jacques Lipchitz, etc. Emphasis will be on presenting a monograph exhibition of Torres-Garcia's works on paper beside works by his closest contemporaries. The show runs concurrent with the retrospective of the artist entitled Joaquin Torres-Garcia: The Arcadian Modern curated by Luis Perez-Ormas, curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which opened on October 25, 2015 and running through February 15, 2016.

Among the works included in this exhibition are several drawings from the artist's early period in Barcelona, such as "Dama" and a complete book of watercolors that he created during his time in Villefranche, France in 1926. His two-year residence in New York in 1920-1922 will be illustrated by a group of important and rare drawings including a page from one of his watercolor New York books. The show will conclude with his mature work created in Paris and work after his return to Montevideo, Uruguay.

A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.