The Drawing Foundation invites you to ON DRAWINGS 2026. Join us in New York City on Wednesday, October 21st and Thursday, October 22nd for two days of events and conversations among curators, collectors, conservators, and artists focused on historical, modern, and contemporary drawings.

Registration is required for all events.

 ON DRAWINGS program is available only to MEMBERS of The Drawing Foundation.
The discussion at the Institute of Fine Arts on October 21st is open to everyone.

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FULL EVENT PROGRAM

Early Hours Exhibition Tour of The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors
Led by Jodi Hauptman, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints,
and Starr Figura, Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA

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Curator- & Conservator-led Exhibition Preview Tour of Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany
Led by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, and Marina Ruiz Molina, Conservator, Paper Conservation Team,
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Process, Time, and Technical Discoveries: Reflections on Willem de Kooning Drawing
For Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), drawing was a direct extension of the mind. He drew constantly, erasing and redrawing his lines, tracing them onto vellum, and transferring them with carbon paper. He also projected, masked, and rubbed his images, while using spray fixative as a medium in its own right to capture the sensation of a fleeting glimpse. The recent exhibition Willem de Kooning Drawing offered an opportunity to conduct technical analysis of many of de Kooning’s drawings to reveal his creative process. Join paper conservator Margaret Holben Ellis and art historian Charlotte Healy for a lively conversation about the years of research leading up to the exhibition and the many technical discoveries that help us understand de Kooning’s oeuvre and drawing practice anew. Ellis and Healy will also reflect on the exhibition’s run at the Art Institute of Chicago and its iteration at the Rijksmuseum to consider broader questions about how drawings are treated, valued, and exhibited.

Presented in partnership with the Conservation Center, NYU IFA

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Study Center visit focused on the drawings of Roy Lichtenstein and
Exhibition Tour of Roy Lichtenstein: 1997
Led by David Crane, Curatorial Research Associate, Nakai Falcón, Curatorial Assistant, and Maya Davis, Curatorial Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art

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Special Visit and Viewing of Robert Rauschenberg: NASA Artist and Cloud Correspondent
Led by Helen Hsu, Associate Curator for Research, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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We are grateful to our members, partners, and various donors and supporters, including Master Drawings New York, whose contributions make our programs possible.