Mia Rosenthal
16 Vessels (Philadelphia Museum of Art), 2026
Ink on paper mounted to gouache edged panel
6 x 6"

Artist Statement
People have been drawing for at least 30,000 years - there is something fundamental about observing, processing that information, and then picking up a tool to draw it in ones own hand, with one's own voice. I relate to this idea very closely, and feel that I'm part of this flow of history, from then until now, of artists who are fascinated by and draw from the real world. Not in the sense of a need to duplicate, but to explore, learn, select, organize, and build through thought and marks.

Artist Biography
Mia Rosenthal is a works on paper artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her drawings are included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Columbus Museum, Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art), Woodmere Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, Texas State University and The New York Public Library. She holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. She was awarded a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund Grant for the Performing and Visual Arts and a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.

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