Samantha Friedman

Samantha Friedman is an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a contributing author of many books on art.

Cristina Amodeo is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Milan, Italy.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of modern art's most important figures, was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker who began creating paper cutouts in the 1940s.