The Drawing Foundation, in association with Master Drawings New York 2026, is proud to present a variety of exciting and engaging partnership events as part of Drawings Week 2026. Join us in New York City (and beyond!) from January 28 through February 7, 2026 for exhibition tours, study room visits, lectures and panel discussions covering a wide range of scholarship areas.
Events are free but registration is required.
If an event is full, please join the waitlist.
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EVENT PROGRAM
Wednesday, January 28, 1pm
Princeton University Art Museum, Elm Drive, Princeton University, New Jersey
Face to Face & Exploring the Princeton University Art Museum Drawings Collection
Exhibition Tour and Study Room Session
Led by Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum
and Jun Nakamura, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton
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Friday, January 30, 11am
Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 18 West 86th Street
Drawing Time: Viollet-le-Duc’s Investigations of Natural and Human Histories
Exhibition Tour Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds
Led by Martin Bressani, the Co-curator of the exhibition and the William C. Macdonald Emeritus Professor at McGill University’s Peter G-H Fu School of Architecture in Montréal
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Friday, January 30, 2:30pm
The Winter Show
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue
Lines of a Nation: Early American Drawings and Their Legacy
Presentations and Panel Discussion
with
Mark Mitchell, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery
Christina Michelon, Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Stuart P. Feld, Collector and President & Director of Hirschl & Adler
Moderated by: Amy Torbert, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum
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Saturday, January 31, 5:30pm
The Society for the History of Collecting
Adam Williams Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street
Collector Conversation: Talking Drawings
led by Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Morgan Library & Museum.
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Sunday, February 1, 10:30am
Trois Crayons and Sotheby’s New York
945 Madison Avenue
Considering Collections: New Curatorial Approaches to Northern Drawings
Presentations and Panel Discussion
with
Olenka Horbatsch, Curator of Dutch, Flemish and German prints and drawings, 1400-1800, British Museum, London
Sarah Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York
Elizabeth R. Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Anita V. Sganzerla, Curator for the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London
Moderators:
Alesa Boyle, Co-founder & CEO, Trois Crayons, London
Greg Rubinstein, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings, Worldwide at Sotheby’s
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Sunday, February 1, 5pm
Christie’s New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza
Old Master Drawings
Lecture
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Monday, February 2, 10:30am
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue
Drawing in the Netherlands, ca. 1550-1650: New Research
Presentations
from
Stijn Alsteens, Director, Fondation Custodia, Paris
Susanne Bartels, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Daan van Heesch, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sponsored by the India Point Foundation,
The Delegation of Flanders to the USA and The Consulate General of Belgium in New York
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Monday, February 2, 2pm
Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street
Winslow Homer at Cooper Hewitt
Study Room Session
Led by Diana Greenwold, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Lunder Curator of American Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
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Tuesday, February 3, 4pm
Master Drawings
Villa Albertine, 972 5th Avenue
Annual Master Drawings Symposium 2026
Scholar Presentations
with
Giovanni Lusi, Ph.D. student, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, winner of the 2026 Ricciardi Prize
Femke Speelberg, Curator of Historic Ornament, Design, and Architecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, runner-up of the 2025 Ricciardi Prize
Sponsored by the Tavolozza Foundation
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Wednesday, February 4, 5:30pm
The Conservation Center of the
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1 East 78th Street
Drawings in the Round: Perspectives on French and Belgian Drawings
Presentations and Panel Discussion
with
Shana Cooperstein, Assistant Professor of Art History, IE University, Spain
Laurel Garber, Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings and the Philadelphia Art Museum
Harriet Stratis, Paper Conservator and Scholar
Moderator:
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Associate Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
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Thursday, February 5, 9:30am
Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue
Early Hours Exhibition Tour of Renoir Drawings
Led by Sarah Lees, Research Associate and exhibition co-curator, The Morgan Library & Museum
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Thursday, February 5, 5pm
The Frick Collection, 10 East 71st Street
Sketch Night
Drawing in the Galleries
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Friday, February 6, 10am
Hispanic Society Museum and Library, 613 West 155th Street
Fashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder
Private Exhibition Viewing of Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700 and Panel Conversation
Curator Talk led by Amanda Wunder, exhibition curator and professor of History and Art History at the City University of New York (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center).
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Friday, February 6, 2pm
West Harlem Art Fund
National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
The Importance of Jewelry in Portraiture Drawings: Symbols, Power and Secrets
Panel Discussion
with
Brian Albert, Co-founder of DSF Antique Jewelry, New York
Laura Engel, Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Sanjay Kapoor, Director of Kapoor Galleries Inc, New York
Ayala Naphtali, Metalsmith and Jewelry Maker, New York
Kim Nelson, Assistant Chair of Jewelry Design, The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Benjamin Zucker, Gem Expert, New York
Moderator:
Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund
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Image: Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), Study Head for Ophelia (detail). Pastel on paper. Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection, Yale University Art Gallery
