The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to present a symposium held in conjunction with Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection on view until September 22, 2024. Moore’s promised gift to the Morgan further expands upon the rich collection of Dutch drawings, illuminating their various functions and techniques and their relationship to European artistic traditions spanning from the seventeenth to early twentieth century. The symposium expands upon these themes, with the following presentations:

Julia Siemon, Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, Bard Graduate Center, New York
All’Insegna d’Anversa: Stradanus and his Netherlandish Network Abroad

Rob Fucci, Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Amsterdam
Real and Imagined Pasts: Drawings of Ruins in the Early Dutch Republic

Leonore van Sloten, Senior Curator, Rembrandthuis Museum, Amsterdam
All the World’s a Stage: Theater and its Impact on Rembrandt

Stijn Alsteens, Director, Fondation Custodia-Collection Frits Lugt, Paris
Poetry and Truth in Lambert Doomer’s French Views

Gregory Rubinstein, Head of Old Master and Early British Drawings, Sotheby’s, London
Albion Seen through Orange-Tinted Spectacles: Drawings of Seventeenth-century Britain by Artists from the Low Countries

John Marciari, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Head of the Department of Drawings, Morgan Library & Museum; Jane Shoaf Turner, Editor, Master Drawings; and Clement C. (“Chips”) Moore A Conversation on Collecting

Image: Jan Siberechts (1627–1703), River Landscape with a View of Oxford in the Distance, ca. 1672-90. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and opaque watercolor over black chalk. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth W. Moore.