View the collection of 62 artworks by Wendy Artin in the Prints and Drawings Collection of the Boston Public Library

“With Pencil, Brush, and Charcoal: Works on Paper by Wendy Artin,” 60 watercolors, drawings, and paintings by the Boston artist whose love of light and of travel led her from Boston and New York to Paris and Rome and to Mexico and Guatemala, will be on exhibit in the Wiggin Gallery of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square through December 1.

A Boston native, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Fine Arts an dFrench Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. She spent two years, 1982-1983 and 1984-1985, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and five years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1990.

Sinclair Hitchings, the library’s keeper of prints, first learned of her work from one of her teachers at the Boston Museum School, Henry Schwartz, and has been collecting her work since 1988. “She has an exceptional natural talent for artistic expression,” says Hitchings, “Her drawings and paintings possess technical mastery, strong feeling, and a combination of forcefulness and subtlety.”

The Boston Public Library’s exhibition runs concurrently with “Rome, carnet de voyage,” an exhibition of Artin’s work on view at Galerie du Passage in Paris. Reviewed in the September issue of Vogue, the Paris exhibition will be extended until Christmas, due to its popularity.