Roberta Waddell, the library's curator of prints, selected about 160 pieces from the Tilden collection for the current exhibition.
Since 2006 he has been selected every year for the exhibition of the German Cartoon Prize.
About one quarter of the paintings and virtually all of the drawings selected for the exhibition come from the Foundation itself and from other family sources.
The jury selected 55 works for the exhibition at Gallery Lombardi.
He and Beaumont Newhall selected 313 prints for the exhibition, and eventually 250 photographs were displayed along with 11 negatives.
The items judiciously selected for the exhibition tell the history of vaudeville almost as if a grand variety act, mixing silliness and splendor.
His work was selected in 1977 for the annual exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York.
In 2011 only 35 artists were selected for the final exhibition.
About 60 oils, pen-and-inks and charcoals were selected by Clarissa Watson, gallery director, for the exhibition.
Of the 57 Mapplethorpe photographs she selected for the exhibition, 31 have seldom or never been exhibited.