Become a Member

This exclusive event is available only to our members! Become a member today to unlock full access and experience all the amazing benefits. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to be part of something special!

Become a Member
Already have an account?
Sign In
Sign Up
Sign In
My account

Events

12 July
2025
:
,

The Bold and the Beautiful 16th-Century Prints and Drawings from the Myron Miller Collection

Museum of Fine Art Boston 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

Museum of Fine Art Boston

Artistic invention and adventurous experimentation characterized the art of Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Fueled by the rediscovery of ancient Roman sculpture, and by a drive to recapture and compete with its grace, balance, and energy, artists experimented boldly with style and composition. Turning to the inherent drama of the human body […]

20 December
2025
:
,

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, United States

Hammer Museum

Since its establishment in 1956 with a gift of prints from Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald, the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts has evolved into one of the nation’s foremost collections of works on paper. Over the decades, the Grunwald Center’s holdings have expanded through donations and acquisitions, and now comprise more than […]

8 January
2026
:
,

Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850

Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, United States

Yale Center for British Art

This exhibition tells the story of artists from India, Britain, and China who worked in the era of one of the most powerful corporations in history. The British East India Company began in 1600 as a private trading enterprise but grew into a military and political force during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It waged […]

24 January
2026
:
,

Drawn to Venice

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue (at Clement Street), San Francisco, CA, United States

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Spanning the Renaissance to the Rococo period, this exhibition celebrates the vitality and originality of the arts in Venice and the Veneto region through more than 30 drawings and prints. In the 16th century, Venice became a thriving artistic center rivaling Rome and Florence. Patronage fostered creative competition among family workshops, such as the Bassano […]

28 January
2026
:
,

Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds

Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United States

Bard Graduate Center Gallery

Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds is the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to the life and work of visionary architect, designer, and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879). Bringing together nearly 150 drawings and objects, the majority of which have never before been on view in the U.S., the exhibition highlights Viollet-le-Duc’s prolific work as a draftsman and the […]
:
,

A View of One’s Own: Landscapes by British Women Artists, 1760-1860

The Courtauld Gallery The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, United Kingdom

The Courtauld Gallery

A View of One’s Own showcases landscape drawings and watercolours by British women artists working between 1760 and 1860, whose work represents a growing area of The Courtauld’s collection. These artists range from highly accomplished amateurs to those ambitious for more formal recognition. They have remained mostly unknown, and their works largely unpublished. When the Royal […]

31 January
2026
:
,

Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024

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

Art Institute of Chicago

Over the course of five decades, Dunham has engaged in wide-ranging formal and thematic experimentation across various media, yet his drawings represent a distinct, interconnected body of work. Dunham’s mature artistic career began in 1970s New York amid a scene dominated by Minimalist aesthetics. Using simple elements such as line, shape, and color, he made […]

29 April
2026
:
,

French Ornament in the Nineteenth Century; A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche and Estelle Thibault

Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United States

Bard Graduate Center Gallery

A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche (Barnard College) and Estelle Thibault (École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Belleville), moderated by Martin Bressani (McGill University) Inspired by thirteenth-century gothic architecture, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc understood ornament as the medium through which the vital energies of the living world became visible. Ornament distilled the anatomical logic of the plants or […]

2 May
2026
:
,

The Drawing Competition 2026

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United States

The National Arts Club

Join up to 65 other artists for a full day of drawing from multiple live models

Latest Past Events

Events, Upcoming
Gothic Aryan: Viollet-le-Duc and the Museums of the Trocadéro; A lecture by Risham Majeed
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
March 16, 2026 6:00 pm
Events
Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
February 28, 2026 1:00 pm
Events
Tour of Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840-70
Clark Art Institute
February 27, 2026 1:00 pm
Events
Close Looking with the Curator: Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 17, 2026 5:30 pm
Events, Recordings
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – The Importance of Jewelry in Portraiture: Symbols, Power, and Secrets
The National Arts Club
February 6, 2026 2:00 pm
Events
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Fashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder
Hispanic Society Museum & Library
February 6, 2026 10:00 am
Events
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Sketch Night at The Frick
The Frick Collection
February 5, 2026 5:00 pm
Events
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Early Hours Tour of Renoir Drawings
The Morgan Library & Museum
February 5, 2026 9:30 am
view more past events

Join The Drawing Foundation community

Scroll to Top
Sign up for our newsletter
Close