Portland Art Museum
R. Crumb and Master Drawing exhibitions open June 12

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June 12-September 19, 2010
Comic book artist R. Crumb has spent the last five years adapting the first book of the Old Testament to a comic book format. The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis presents the results of Crumb's work on this ambitious project. The exhibition features all 207 individual black-and-white drawings incorporating every word from all 50 chapters of Genesis. Illustrated in his signature bawdy style, Crumb's version of these familiar stories--from the Garden of Eden to Noah's Ark--puts an entirely new twist on the Bible.