Crosscurrents: Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century
The Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory
The eighteenth century was a time of great cross-cultural exchange, in Europe and beyond. Artists from England and Northern Europe embarked on their Grand Tours of Italy to steep themselves in the classical monuments and landscapes, while other artists traveled north to seek out royal and elite patronage, prestigious commissions in flourishing academies, and in search of inspiration in new places. This multifaceted cultural exchange was further expanded by artists’ encounters with diverse cultures, in colonies or through exported goods. Join us for a panel discussion between scholars and dealers to discuss the importance of drawing from this period of travel and enrichment.
Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity
Jill Newhouse Gallery 4 East 81st Street, New York City, NY, United StatesJill Newhouse Gallery
Exhibition Tour for Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity On view January 31-March 7, 2025 Jill Newhouse Gallery, in association with Galerie Zlotowski, Paris, will present the first New York exhibition and sale of 25 works on paper by Sonia Delaunay, the pioneering abstract painter whose ideas of “Simultaneity” helped to redefine cubism and the abstract art of […]
Book Launch: The Farnese Drawings Collection
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, Exhibiting at Adam Williams Fine Art 24 East 80th Street, New York, NY, United StatesStephen Ongpin Fine Art, Exhibiting at Adam Williams Fine Art
Join author Claire Van Cleave for the launch of her much anticipated publication: The Farnese Drawings Collection, Editori Paparo, Naples, 2025. The Farnese Drawings Collection chronicles the rise and fall of the drawings collected in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome from the heyday of Farnese power in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through to the remnants of the collection now held in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples. At its peak, the collection included over 850 works on paper by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Parmigianino, Jacopo Bertoia, Giulio Clovio, Sofonisba Anguissola, Annibale Carracci, Albrecht Dürer, and other great artists of the period, but today only 57 drawings with a Farnese provenance are identifiable in Capodimonte collections.
Exhibition Tour – Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Join us on Friday, April 25 for an exclusive tour of the acclaimed exhibition Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum, led by curator Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art, at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The tour is scheduled just ahead of the final weekend of the […]
New York City Plein Air Festival
Madison Square Park 11 Madison Ave, New York, United StatesMadison Square Park
Due to the chance of thunderstorms in New York City on Saturday, June 7, we will be rescheduling the Plein Air Festival to the Rain Date, Sunday, June 8. En Plein Air : the act of painting outdoors in the open air. Join us for a full day of art-making in the beautiful and historic Madison […]
Exhibition Tour – Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers
MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, United StatesMoMA
Join us for an intimate early hours tour of the stunning exhibition of botanical watercolors by Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). The tour will be led by Jodi Hauptman, The Richard Roth Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about this fascinating artist and her unique, spiritual […]
Exhibition Tour – Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings
The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, United StatesThe Morgan Library & Museum
Join us for a tour of the intimate exhibition of drawings by Lisa Yuskavage (b.1962). The tour will be led by Claire Gilman, Acquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Morgan Library & Museum. Don't miss this opportunity to view the first museum exhibition of Yuskavage's captivating drawings and to learn more […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025
Join us in New York City on November 6th and 7th for two days of events and conversations among curators, collectors, conservators, and artists focused on historical, modern, and contemporary drawings.
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Exhibition Tour at The Drawing Center
The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe Drawing Center
Exhibition Tour of Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena Led by Olivia Shao, Burger Collection and TOY Meets Art Curator, The Drawing Center This event is open to members of The Drawing Foundation. Log in to your membership account to register or sign up to become a member today. ___ More about the exhibition: […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Exhibition Tour & Study Room Visit at The Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United StatesWhitney Museum of American Art
Study Center visit focused on the drawings of Claes Oldenburg and Exhibition Tour of the installation Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life Led by Antonia Pocock, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art and Eli Harrison, Curatorial Fellow, Sondra Gilman Study Center, Whitney Museum of American Art This event is open to members of The Drawing […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Study Room Visit at the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesBrooklyn Museum
Study Center visit focused on highlights of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of European drawings Led by Lisa Small, Senior Curator, European Art, Brooklyn Museum This event is open to members of The Drawing Foundation. Log in to your membership account to register or sign up to become a member today. ___ More about the history […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Beyond Boundaries: Mapmaking
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY, United StatesInstitute of Fine Arts, New York University
Beyond Boundaries: Mapmaking Panel Discussion Even in the age of satellite images, GPS, and Google Maps, mapping remains a drawn act—raising questions of orientation, imagination, and belonging. This program explores maps – their making, their functions, and their repurposing – focusing on mapmaking as a hand-drawn delineation of place and boundaries, and how artists and […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Study Room visit at MoMA
MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, United StatesMoMA
Study Center visit focusing on Surrealist drawings by women artists from the collection Led by Samantha Friedman, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA This event is open to members of The Drawing Foundation. Log in to your membership account to register or sign up to become a member today. __ In recent years, MoMA […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Exhibition Tour at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, United StatesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition Tour of Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson Led by Jennifer Farrell, Jordan Schnitzer Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art This event is open to members of The Drawing Foundation. Log in to your membership account to register or sign up to become a member today. __ Exhibition […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Exhibition Tour at the Morgan Library and Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, United StatesThe Morgan Library & Museum
Exhibition Tour of Renoir Drawings Led by Rebecca Pollak, Associate Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, Morgan Library & Museum and Sarah Lees, Research Associate, Morgan Library & Museum This event is open to members of The Drawing Foundation. Log in to your membership account to register or sign up to become a member today. __ […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026
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.
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Drawing Time: Viollet-le-Duc’s Investigations of Natural and Human Histories
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
Join co-curator Martin Bressani for a private tour of Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds, on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from January 28 to May 24, 2026. This is the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), celebrated restorer of Notre-Dame de Paris and one of modern architecture’s most influential figures. It is […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Lines of a Nation: Early American Drawings and Their Legacy
The Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory
How do we define early American art? When do drawings truly become American despite being produced by artists often trained in Europe? What or who defines “American” in terms of imagery, materials, or techniques? This panel discussion brings together four specialists in American art to share their knowledge on this important moment for the nascent […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Collector Conversations: Talking Drawings
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, Exhibiting at Adam Williams Fine Art 24 East 80th Street, New York, NY, United StatesStephen Ongpin Fine Art, Exhibiting at Adam Williams Fine Art
All drawing collectors have an origin story, a moment or a work that led them down the path of pursuing drawings as objects of pleasure and study. Growing up surrounded by one of the great American private collections of drawings provides a head start, though the challenges of determining what to collect and establishing personal […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Considering Collections: New Curatorial Approaches to Northern Drawings
Sotheby's New York 945 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY, United StatesSotheby’s New York
Join us for this opportunity to hear from four engaging early career curators based in the UK and US as they discuss their recent or upcoming exhibitions that highlight northern drawings. These curators represent four distinct types or collections: a public municipal museum, a private museum, a university museum, and a private collection. Panelists will […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Drawing in the Netherlands, ca. 1550-1650: New Research
Sacerdote Lecture Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesSacerdote Lecture Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Scholars from institutions in Paris, Brussels, Cambridge, and New York share their recent work in the field of Netherlandish and Dutch drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, presenting new insights on well-known and newly discovered sheets. Speakers: A Master of Blue Landscapes: On a New Addition to the Frits Lugt Collection Stijn Alsteens, Director, […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Winslow Homer at Cooper Hewitt
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY, United StatesCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Throughout his career, American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) relied on drawings to process the world around him and as foundations for his most celebrated compositions. Though best known as an oil painter, watercolorist, and etcher, Homer relied on drawing to absorb and sort key details of his environs and to experiment with composition. In this […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Annual Master Drawings Symposium 2026
Villa Albertine, The Payne Whitney Mansion 972 5th Ave, New York, New York, United StatesVilla Albertine, The Payne Whitney Mansion
New scholarship by authors under 40 is the focus of the annual Master Drawings Symposium, returning in 2026 for its tenth year. The journal awards the Ricciardi Prize to the most groundbreaking contributions by young scholars and offers the winners and runners up the opportunity to present their findings in front of drawings enthusiasts. This year, Master Drawings […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Drawings in the Round: Perspectives on French and Belgian Drawings
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY, United StatesInstitute of Fine Arts, New York University
This panel brings together distinct perspectives on recent or upcoming projects considering French and Belgian drawing and drawing materials. Participants will reflect on how and where such projects originate, and how the different players involved collaborate and complement each other’s work on and with the objects themselves. Each speaker gives a brief presentation of their […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Early Hours Tour of Renoir Drawings
The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, United StatesThe Morgan Library & Museum
Join Sarah Lees, Research Associate at the Morgan Library & Museum and exhibition co-curator, for a special opportunity to tour Renoir Drawings before the museum opens to the public. Don't miss this chance to discover Renoir's prolific drawing practice in this intimate tour of this exhibition before it closes on Sunday, February 8. Exhibition Information: While […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Fashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder
Hispanic Society Museum & Library 613 W 155th St, New York, NY, United StatesHispanic Society Museum & Library
Spend the morning at the Hispanic Society enjoying light refreshments followed by a conversation and private viewing of the exhibition, Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700. The event will be a moderated conversation with Amanda Wunder, the curator of the exhibition Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700, with a focus on the way the illuminated manuscripts in […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – The Importance of Jewelry in Portraiture: Symbols, Power, and Secrets
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United StatesThe National Arts Club
The Middle Ages (5th-14th century) coincided with the fall of the Roman Empire and the Golden Age of Islam, a period when paintings were often more symbolic or centered on nature. There was a renewed interest in Greco-Roman knowledge during the Renaissance, accompanied by significant achievements in the arts and sciences. Jewelry also contributed to […]
Close Looking with the Curator: Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, United StatesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join us for a closer look at incredible drawings of the Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives! We are pleased to offer a special opportunity for The Drawing Foundation’s members to look at and discuss an installation of drawings related to the Brooklyn Bridge. The result of a multiyear effort to preserve the […]
Tour of Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840-70
Clark Art Institute 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA, United StatesClark Art Institute
Join us for this intimate tour of the exhibition Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840-70. Led by the exhibition curator, Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute. About the exhibition: The mid-1800s in France was a tumultuous era that witnessed dramatic political, social, and cultural change. The […]
Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, United StatesYale Center for British Art
Meet The Drawing Foundation in New Haven for an intimate discussion and curator-led tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850 at the 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 […]