The works in the show range across genres and mediums, including abstract paintings, traditional figure studies, collages, documentary and art photography, and sculptures both fanciful and figural.
"I think kids' art is like figure studies, pretty much all the same," he said.
He began making bold figure studies and portraits in graphite and black crayon, in an expressionistic style.
A video installation by Ray Rapp uses cutting-edge technology to update Eadweard Muybridge's sequential figure studies.
Edith used friends and neighbors as models for portraits and allegorical figure studies, although she also painted scenic views.
"A few days later he appeared with an impressive folio of figure studies, some of which were nudes.
Leanne Weissler's three figure studies reveal far more emotional content than her distilled mark making might first indicate.
Among them are powerful figure studies, like Annibale's "Triton Sounding a Conch Shell" (probably around 1597), one of the many preparatory drawings for the Farnese Palace project.
In a series of untitled figure studies, Ms. Gatto-Idler turns her camera on herself, picturing her own body as a work in progress.
Chase was not invited, having retreated by then to his summer home on Long Island, where he painted figure studies and windswept sand dunes.
(A tantalizing oil sketch and figure studies for the proposed masterpiece are among the Freer's many Whistlers, the largest representation of his work anywhere).
