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18 October
2024
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Thinking Through Drawing

Smith College Museum of Art 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace, Northampton, MA, United States

Smith College Museum of Art

When we look at a finished piece of art, we often feel a deep appreciation for that special moment when it transforms from an idea into a completed work. This change is usually shown through sketches and drawings that the artist creates along the way. These early works reveal the artist’s thoughts and invite viewers […]

15 March
2025
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Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking

Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive, LOS ANGELES, CA, United States

Getty Center

The first exhibition ever to focus on the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking, this presentation brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to uncover the inner workings of their creative process and offer new ways to think about the links between the two mediums. […]

11 May
2025
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Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, United States

MoMA

In the spring and summer of 1919 and 1920, during a period of intense engagement with nature, artist Hilma af Klint drew flowers almost every day. “I will try,” she wrote, “to grasp the flowers of the earth.” This exhibition focuses on a recently discovered portfolio of drawings—jewel-toned watercolors made by a keen-eyed naturalist, attuned […]

1 June
2025
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Reform to Restoration: French Art from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII from the Horvitz Collection

Crocker Art Museum 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA, United States

Crocker Art Museum

French Art from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII from the Horvitz Collection The 125 drawings and 20 paintings in this exhibition reveal the ways that more than 70 artists engaged with artistic debates, archaeological discoveries, and sweeping political changes from the final decades of the ancien régime through the French Revolution, Empire, and Restoration. The […]

28 June
2025
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Contemporary Drawings from the Stenn Family Collection

Art Institute of Chicago 159 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL

Art Institute of Chicago

Voraciously curious and contagiously enthusiastic about art, Chicagoan Irving Stenn Jr. has across five decades assembled a spectacular collection of 20th-century art from various movements and across the world. Stenn began collecting art with his wife, Marcia, in 1971, largely as a way of enhancing their newly renovated Lincoln Park home. Although neither had formal […]

5 July
2025
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Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life

Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

Best known for his sculptures of everyday objects rendered in unexpected textures or dimensions, Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022) once proclaimed, “I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself.” His innovations in sculpture emerged out of his drawing practice, which enabled him to swiftly record and transform the contours of […]

17 July
2025
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2025 Summer Exhibition

Galeria Richard Vanderaa 10, Caritat Serinyana. Cadaqués, Catalunya, Girona, Spain

Galeria Richard Vanderaa

RICHARD VANDERAA GALLERY is pleased to present its 2025 summer exhibition with an eclectic selection of Minimal, Conceptual, and Geometric works of art on paper by internationally renowned artists. Artists exhibited: Jene Highstein; Jaume Plensa; Miguel Ángel Campano; Jan Voss; Günther Förg; Peter Schuyff; Antonio Calderara; Tamás Konok; Jaume Xifra; Ger van Elk; Enrique Tábara; […]

13 September
2025
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Reimagining Revolution, Reform, and Restoration in Three Museums: Curator Panel Discussion on the Horvitz Collection of French Drawings

Crocker Art Museum 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA, United States

Crocker Art Museum

Join the curators behind the years-long traveling exhibition of French drawings from the Horvitz Collection for enlightening presentations and a panel discussion. Sarah Farkas, the Crocker Art Museum's Associate Curator of Art, will be joined by curators who worked closely on the different iterations of the exhibition at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, […]

Latest Past Events

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Exhibition Tour – Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers
MoMA
July 25, 2025 9:30 am
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PAIRINGS: Drawings from the Jack Shear Collection
Jack Shear Collection at the Ellsworth Kelly Studio
July 19, 2025 1:00 pm
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Collector Conversation: Elective Affinities
Jack Shear Collection at the Ellsworth Kelly Studio
July 19, 2025 11:00 am
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Timeless Materials: A Conversation on Drawing with Contemporary Artists
Trois Crayons
June 27, 2025 4:00 pm
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New York City Plein Air Festival
Madison Square Park
June 8, 2025 8:30 am
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Exhibition Tour – Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
April 25, 2025 1:00 pm
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The Drawing Competition 2025
The National Arts Club
April 6, 2025 10:00 am
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Monet, Great / Not so Great: Looking Closely
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 7, 2025 6:00 pm

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