NEW YORK, N.Y.- Pablo Picasso was one of the worlds greatest draftsmen. Drawing was his primary medium for thinking, problem solving, invention, and personal expression. It was the link that connected his work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, theater design, and ceramics, and was a direct tie to his predecessors. Picassos diverse body of original work on paper broke new ground, while also consciously incorporating aspects of the tradition from which it sprang. This autumn, The Frick Collection presents an exhibition of more than sixty drawings (works in pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, and chalk) spanning the first thirty years of Picassos career, from his first signed drawing to works from the early 1920s. During these same years, museum founder Henry Clay Frick (18491919) was acquiring masterpieces from the early Renaissance through the end of the nineteen