For Paula Rego, drawing served as a way to enter the complex world around her. “When you write your story you know what it’s about,” she told The White Review. “But invention comes when you do a drawing.” Born in 1935 in Lisbon, she moved to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. Soon after, Rego became a member of the London Group, alongside peers such as David Hockney and Phillip Sutton. Her drawings were intimate but also rooted in political protest: a fervent supporter of abortion rights, she frequently depicted the act in her work. A new exhibition explores the variety in Rego’s line-work—her use of pen and ink, pastel, conté, charcoal, and pencil—and the way these works intersect with storytelling. The art on view is accompanied by archival material from Rego’s life: notes, letters, photographs, and even a drawing of her grandmother that Rego made when she was nine. —Maggie Turner