BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Drawing Foundation - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Drawing Foundation X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Drawing Foundation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T143000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20260120T053343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T024650Z UID:10000166-1772283600-1772289000@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Tour of Painters\, Ports\, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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 war to rule India and sell opium in China. To support its commercial and imperial goals\, the Company encouraged its agents to commission art. Works of art depicted commodities\, functioned as gifts to ease trade deals and build alliances\, and visually recorded the places and societies where the Company traded and governed. \nThis exhibition\, of more than one hundred objects\, is mostly drawn from the YCBA’s rich collection of works on paper from Asia. It includes rich opaque watercolors\, large-scale oil portraits\, evocative architectural drafts and a spectacular thirty-seven-foot-long scroll. The artists featured here trained in Indian courts\, in art and military institutes in Britain\, and in Chinese workshops. In preparing for the exhibition\, curators\, conservators\, and conservation scientists explored how these artists combined regional methods with new materials and techniques to create artworks of great beauty and innovation. \nLaurel O. Peterson is Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. \nHolly Shaffer is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Yale Center for British Art \n                \n  \nImage: Artist now unknown\, Breadnut (Artocarpus camansi) (detail)\, ca. 1825. Watercolor\, gouache\, and graphite on laid paper. Yale Center for British Art\, Paul Mellon Fund\, B2022.5. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/curator-tour-of-painters-ports-and-profits-at-the-yale-center-for-british-art/ LOCATION:Yale Center for British Art\, 1080 Chapel Street\, New Haven\, CT\, 06510\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Breadfruit-YCBA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20260211T221552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T024658Z UID:10000171-1772197200-1772200800@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Tour of Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current\, 1840-70 DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout the exhibition:\nThe mid-1800s in France was a tumultuous era that witnessed dramatic political\, social\, and cultural change. The impact of those transformations on the art of the period has often been measured by the painting and sculpture shown at government-sponsored Salons\, Universal Expositions\, and other prominent exhibition venues\, which tended to uphold official narratives of progress. \nYet a focus on more private media\, such as printmaking and photography\, tells a different story. In fact\, many artists felt at odds with their era’s celebration of material advancement and modernization. \nRejecting the prevailing current\, such figures—described as “Shadow Visionaries” for this exhibition—chose dark subject matter oriented toward the irrational\, spiritual\, and fantastical. They used the distinctive characteristics of black-and-white media to convey intense emotions\, while producing works of unsparing directness and rare beauty. Although some of the Shadow Visionaries evoked nostalgia\, others dreamed boldly toward an alternate future\, anticipating later art movements such as Symbolism and Surrealism. \nShadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current\, 1840-70 is organized by the Clark Art Institute and curated by Anne Leonard\, Manton Curator of Prints\, Drawings\, and Photographs. Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current\, 1840-70 is on view in the exhibition galleries in the Clark Center’s lower level. \nMajor funding for Shadow Visionaries is provided by Hubert and Mireille Goldschmidt\, with additional support from the IFPDA Foundation and the Troob Family Foundation. \n              \nImage: Jean Charles Cazin (French\, 1840–1901)\, The Quarries at Gentilly\, by Night\, 1862\, Charcoal and white chalk on blue paper\, 7 7/8 × 10 3/8 in. (20 × 26.4 cm). Frits Lugt Collection\, Fondation Custodia\, Paris URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/tour-of-shadow-visionaries-french-artists-against-the-current-1840-70/ LOCATION:Clark Art Institute\, 225 South Street\, Williamstown\, MA\, 01267\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2025-sv-10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260217T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260217T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20260205T204234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T203150Z UID:10000170-1771349400-1771353000@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Close Looking with the Curator: Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives DESCRIPTION:Join us for a closer look at incredible drawings of the Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives! \nWe 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. \nThe result of a multiyear effort to preserve the Brooklyn Bridge’s design and construction drawings\, this project offered an extraordinary opportunity for collaboration between The Met and the New York City Municipal Archives. Join curator Elena Carrara and the head of scientific research Marco Leona to take a closer look at these rarely-seen drawings of this quintessential New York City landmark. \nElena Carrara\, an art historian\, is the first Associate Research Curator in the Department of Scientific Research\, where she oversees outreach and collaboration with external partners. \nMarco Leona is the David H. Koch Scientist in Charge of the Department of Scientific Research at the Met. \nThe special installation is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.\nThe Scientific Research Partnerships program is supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. \n            \nImage: John A. Roebling\, Presentation drawing for the East River Bridge (detail)\, 1867. Pen\, ink\, and watercolor on paper. NYC Municipal Archives\, no. 149A URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/close-looking-with-the-curator-brooklyn-bridge-from-the-new-york-municipal-archives/ LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BB_149A-Web3-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T150000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T191802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T201949Z UID:10000151-1770386400-1770390000@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - The Importance of Jewelry in Portraiture: Symbols\, Power\, and Secrets DESCRIPTION: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 this wave of creativity and innovation\, and Renaissance jewelry is a treasured period for collectors of antique jewelry. All designs were carefully crafted and featured mythological scenes\, allegorical figures\, and floral arrangements. Painting\, sculpture\, and metal smithing were among the skills of artists. \nIn a panel moderated by Savona Bailey-McClain\, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund\, we will learn about notable painters from Western Europe\, India\, Pakistan and ancient Persia. How did these paintings influence society? Do they still affect us today? \nPanelists:\nBrian Albert\, Co-founder of DSF Antique Jewelry\, New York\nLaura Engel\, Professor\, Duquesne University\, Pittsburgh\, PA\nSanjay Kapoor\, Director of Kapoor Galleries Inc\, New York\nAyala Naphtali\, Metalsmith and Jewelry Maker\, New York\nKim Nelson\, Assistant Chair of Jewelry Design\, The Fashion Institute of Technology\, New York\nBenjamin Zucker\, Gem Expert\, New York\n__\n\nPanelist Bios: \n\n\nBrian Albert is a gem merchant and co-founder of DSF Antique Jewelry. Around 2013\, he and his partner\, Filip\, established a retail presence\, transitioning their business from online to a physical shop. Albert is largely responsible for sourcing the antique and vintage jewelry\, which includes Georgian\, Victorian\, and Art Deco pieces\, while managing operations with partners Filip and Alexandrina \nLaura Engel is a Professor in the English Department at Duquesne University\, where she specializes in eighteenth-century literature\, theatre\, and material culture studies. She is the author of The Art of the Actress (Cambridge University Press Elements Series\, 2024)\, Women\, Performance\, and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist (Palgrave\, 2019)\, Austen\, Actresses\, and Accessories (Palgrave Pivot\, 2015)\, and Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making (Ohio UP\, 2011) along with numerous essays on actresses\, fashion\, and women artists. She is currently co-curating the exhibition\, “The Paradox of Pearls: From the Renaissance to the Gilded Age” at the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania (opening fall 2027). \n\n\nSanjay Kapoor has been leading the global sales and acquisition of museum quality works of art from India\, Nepal\, and Tibet for over 40 years. As a fourth-generation Director at Kapoor Galleries Inc. I have a deep passion and knowledge of South Asian and Himalayan antiquities\, and I ensure that all the pieces I deal with meet the highest standards of attribution\, provenance\, and condition. I have also contributed to scholarly publications and cataloging of Indian miniatures and Himalayan statuary\, which are my areas of specialization. \nI have developed strong and trusted relationships with a diverse range of clients\, from private collectors and connoisseurs to museums and institutions worldwide. Some of the prestigious organizations that I have worked with include the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Asia Society\, the Rubin Museum\, and the Art Institute of Chicago. I am also an active member and leader of several professional associations and committees\, such as the Art and Antique Dealers League of America\, the International Society of Appraisers\, and the Asian Art Council. I am proficient in contemporary marketing platforms\, especially those popular in Asia\, such as WeChat and Ad campaigns. My goal is to promote the gallery’s commitment to excellence and to share my passion for Asian art with a wider audience. \n\n\nAyala Naphtali is a NYC based metalsmith / jewelry maker with a studio inEast Williamsburg\, Brooklyn. She began making jewelry as an early teen in NYC.  She studied Gold and Silversmithing at FIT and SUNY NEW PALTZ where she received her BFA.  Ayala was recently awarded as a 2021 Honoree by NYCxDesign. \nAyala’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums shops and design stores. Her work has been collected privately\, and in the permanent collection of Cooper Hewitt and Kunsindustriumuseum in Norway\, The White House ornament collection.Ayala has exhibited in major national juried art shows such as American Craft Exposition in Baltimore\, SOFA\, Cherry Creek Arts Festival and numerous others annually.  Selected publications include American Craft Magazine\, ELLE\, The Fashions of The Times\, The New York Times\, Mademoiselle\, Women’s Wear Daily\, Glamour\, and New Women Magazine\, New York Post.  Ayala has been a juror for The American Craft Council Craft Shows. \nAyala Naphtali draws inspiration from ancient alphanumeric systems\, contemporary architecture and her own personal\, cultural history. She is intrigued with balance and proportion and feels that each of her pieces must find its axis on the wearer. She creates work with elegance and minimal\, bold forms. \nThe choice of a particular material is often the motivation for the artist to design a specific work. It’s texture\, color and versatility influence the end result. Some materials are hand dyed or carved. Other techniques she utilizes include forging\, fabricating and casting. Different combinations of techniques allow her to make jewelry pieces with dimension and volume\, but without excessive weight. \nKim Nelson is a multiple award-winning designer with 32 years of jewelry industry experience. He currently serves as the Assistant Chair over Jewelry Design within the Fashion Department at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)\, a position he has held since 2017. \nOriginally from Salt Lake City Utah\, his jewelry career began with the Jewelry Design Program at The Fashion Institute of Technology\, where he studied in the process of transitioning from a successful career in illustration. He began working as a free-lance designer for Andre’ Chervin at Carvin French Jewelers while still a student at FIT and was hired as their in-house designer upon graduation. Kim’s design apprenticeship under Andre’ Chervin lasted for three years and would shape his understanding and approach to jewelry for the rest of his career. After three years with Carvin French\, Kim accepted an offer to work as a Senior Designer at Stuller\, Inc.\, In Lafayette Louisiana\, where he learned to develop commercial product while gaining a deep understanding and appreciation for jewelry manufacturing on the industrial scale. This was also where he was first exposed to CAD/CAM technologies and began his work with CAD modeling as one of the earliest Rhino users in the industry. \nUpon returning to New York\, Kim resumed his work with Carvin French for another three years\, working on some of the most important jewelry from the turn of the twenty-first century before leaving to open his own jewelry design business where his first client was Stuller\, who continuously contracted him for design and CAD modeling over the following ten years. During this time\, he also did free-lance design and modeling projects for numerous important houses in the industry. \nKim’s academic career began when he returned to FIT to teach jewelry design and CAD modeling as a part-time adjunct professor in 2000. He accepted a full-time teaching position in 2013 and became head of the Jewelry Design Program in 2017\, a capacity he continues to serve in. Kim remains active in the jewelry industry through free-lance design and model making\, commercial training\, and private client work. \nBenjamin Zucker is a gem merchant\, connoisseur\, and expert on the history of gems and jewelry who works in a family-owned business in New York City. He is a graduate of Yale BA degree 1962 and Harvard Law School 1965. Zucker has traveled worldwide in search of precious stones and is sometimes called upon to track the provenance of unusual or rare pieces of jewelry. His nonfiction titles offer practical advice to those who wish to purchase or collect gems\, on scales both modest and grand. \n\n\nModerator Bio: \nSavona Bailey-McClain is a Harlem based curator and arts administrator. She is the Executive Director/Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund\, which has organized high-profile public arts exhibits throughout New York City for the past 20 years\, including Times Square\, DUMBO\, Soho\, Governors Island and Harlem. Her public art installations encompass sculpture\, drawings\, performance\, sound\, and mixed media\, and have been covered extensively by the New York Times\, Art Daily\, Artnet\, Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post\, among many others. She is host/ producer of “State of the Arts NYC\,” a video podcast program on several platforms. She is a member of ArtTable\, Advisory Board member of NYC’s Dance in Sacred Places\, Governors Island Advisory Council and new Board member of NY Artists Equity Association. \n\n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the West Harlem Art Fund\, and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. \n                             \nImage: Willem van Mieris (Dutch\, 1662–1747)\, An African Woman\, c. 1710–1715. Oil on panel 7 1⁄16 x 5 13⁄16 in.\, New Orleans Museum of Art\, Museum purchase\, Alvin and Carol Merlin Acquisition Fund and the Deaccession Fund\, 2018.1 URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-whaf-jewelry-in-portraiture/ LOCATION:The National Arts Club\, 15 Gramercy Park South\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Tronie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T120000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T184105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T160938Z UID:10000150-1770372000-1770379200@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Fashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder DESCRIPTION: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 the show chart the development of fashion in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries. \nAmanda Wunder is professor of History and Art History at the City University of New York (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center)\, and the author of Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis (2017) and Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (2024). \nExhibition Information: \nSpain’s imperial expansion inspired a fashion revolution. Elite clothing incorporated materials from across the Spanish Empire into opulent garments and accessories that radically reshaped the human body. The result was a unique style of dress that defined Spain’s national identity in the 16th and 17th centuries\, and that continues to inspire fashion today. \nSet in the Hispanic Society’s ornate Renaissance courtyard\, this exhibition tells the story of this remarkable era of fashion history through the museum’s rich collections\, including royal portraits\, sumptuous textiles and jewelry\, life-size sculptures\, and vibrantly illuminated manuscripts. \nThe exhibition features sixteen rarely seen manuscript letters of nobility illuminated with miniatures showing men\, women\, and children dressed in the latest courtly styles. These brilliantly colored family portraits\, painted in painstaking detail\, reveal how upwardly-mobile families manipulated their appearances and used their clothes to climb the social ladder in the Spanish Empire. \nSpanish Style: Fashion Illuminated\, 1550-1700 is curated by Amanda Wunder\, a specialist on early modern Spanish art and culture\, and author of Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (2024). \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Hispanic Society Museum and Library and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. \n                               \nImage:  “Doña Baltasara Mala de Molina and doña Inés de Valenzuela.” Third issue of a carta ejecutoria de hidalguía petitioned by Francisco and don Luis de Ortega Vallejo\, brothers\, residents of Valdepeñas\, Granada\, 6 June 1601\, (detail). URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-spanish-style-hsml/ LOCATION:Hispanic Society Museum & Library\, 613 W 155th St\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/EX-1601-Gr_women-JPEG-Copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T103000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T161015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T160958Z UID:10000148-1770283800-1770287400@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Early Hours Tour of Renoir Drawings DESCRIPTION: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.\n \nExhibition Information: \nWhile the paintings of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) have become icons of Impressionism\, his drawings\, watercolors\, and pastels are far less widely known. In fact\, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career. This exhibition explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas\, plan compositions\, and interpret both landscape and the human figure. \nThematic sections will cover the full span of the artist’s career\, ranging from academic studies he made as a student\, to on-the-spot impressions of contemporary urban and rural life\, to finished\, formal portraits\, to intimate sketches of friends and family completed late in life. In-depth case studies of favored themes and preparatory work for landmark canvases will further illuminate Renoir’s practice of drawing. \nInspired by the major gift to the Morgan of a large-scale preparatory sketch for one of Renoir’s most significant paintings\, The Great Bathers\, this exhibition is the first in a century to explore the artist’s works on paper in depth. Organized by the Morgan Library Museum and the Musée d’Orsay\, Paris\, Renoir Drawings brings together nearly one hundred drawings\, pastels\, watercolors\, prints\, and a small selection of paintings\, enabling visitors to engage with Renoir’s creative process while offering insights into his artistic methods over five decades. \nOrganized by Colin B. Bailey\, Katharine J. Rayner Director\, and Sarah Lees\, Research Associate. \nRenoir Drawings is organized by the Morgan Library & Museum and the Musée d’Orsay.  \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Morgan Library & Museum and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. \n                               \nImage: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)\, Study for “Dance in the Country” (detail)\, 1883. Brush and brown\, blue\, and black wash over black chalk or graphite on paper. Yale University Art Gallery\, Bequest of Edith Malvina K. Wetmore\, 1966.80.25. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-renoir-drawings/ LOCATION:The Morgan Library & Museum\, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street\, New York\, NY 10016\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ag-obj-10825-0002-pub-scaled-e1765469119565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T190000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T152614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T144236Z UID:10000147-1770226200-1770231600@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Drawings in the Round: Perspectives on French and Belgian Drawings DESCRIPTION: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 project\, each of which offers a major intervention into some aspect of the field of French or Belgian drawings. These presentations are followed by a lively conversation. \nPanelists:\nShana Cooperstein\, Assistant Professor of Art History\, IE University\, Spain\nLaurel Garber\, Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings and the Philadelphia Art Museum\nHarriet Stratis\, Paper Conservator and Scholar \nModerator:\nEmmelyn Butterfield-Rosen\, Associate Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University \n__ \nPanelist Bios: \nShana Cooperstein is Assistant Professor of Art History\, IE University\, Spain\, where she has taught sine 2023. A specialist of art of the long 19th century\, Cooperstein has a particular interest in the material practices of artistic production\, representational theory\, and the history of scientific imaging. Her book Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France: Habit’s Demise (Routledge\, 2025) examines schematization\, the education of the eye\, and other problems central to the history of art instruction in the modern era. \nLaurel Garber is the Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings and the Philadelphia Art Museum. Her recent exhibition projects in Philadelphia include Wanda Gág: Art for Life’s Sake\, Mary Cassatt at Work\, and Emma Amos: Color Odyssey. She received her PhD from Northwestern University and previously held curatorial fellowships and roles at the Art Institute of Chicago\,  J. Paul Getty Museum\, and the Clark Art Institute. She is working on the exhibition Léon Spilliaert: Lit from Within that will open at The Menil Collection in 2027 and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2028. \nHarriet Stratis is a paper conservator and scholar with special expertise in the study and treatment of pastels. She served as Conservator of Prints and Drawings and Head of Paper Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1995 to 2013. She then assumed the role of Senior Research Conservator before retiring in 2017 and establishing her private consulting practice\, Stratis Fine Art Conservation LLC. Stratis has published and presented talks on the materials and techniques employed by numerous artists\, including Edgar Degas\, Mary Cassatt\, Paul Gauguin\, Odilon Redon\, and James McNeill Whistler. She has a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College\, Columbia University\, and an MA in Art History and a Certificate in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. \nModerator bio: \nEmmelyn Butterfield-Rosen is a specialist in nineteenth-century European art\, and Associate Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts. She is the author of Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition (University of Chicago Press\, 2021)\, a study of gesture and body language in turn-of-the-century modern art. \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. \n                               \nImage: Nineteenth-century drawing materials including chalks and charcoals. Private Collection. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-drawings-in-the-round-french/ LOCATION:Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University\, 1 East 78th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Art-Materials-Chalks-and-Charcoals-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T173000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T043526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T211355Z UID:10000146-1770134400-1770139800@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Annual Master Drawings Symposium 2026 DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis year\, Master Drawings is pleased to award the prize to Giovanni Lusi\, author of Behind Abstraction: Cy Twombly and Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings. Lusi\, a Ph.D. student at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa\, brilliantly presents the intense relationship Twombly had with the drawings and notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci\, notably during the early phase of his career\, in 1959 and 1960.  The opportunity to consult Twombly’s private library\, together with the rediscovery of important archival materials\, have allowed the author to trace the sources of the artist’s often-surprising reinterpretation of Leonardo’s model. The research reveals the remarkable role the dialogue with the Renaissance master had on the invention of Twombly’s pictorial language. \n  \nCy Twombly (1928-2011)\, Untitled\, 1968. Collage: (reproduction of a study by Leonardo da Vinci\, three sheets of white book-printing paper\, transparent adhesive tape)\, pencil 29 1/6 x 17 7/8 inches. Collection Cy Twombly Foundation. © Cy Twombly Foundation\n  \nThe symposium also features 2025 prize runner-up Femke Speelberg\, who will discuss her fascinating analysis of a rare\, monumental design for a sacrament house attributed to the Late-Gothic German architect Lorenz Lechler. In focusing on Lechler’s design\, and its immediate context\, Speelberg\, Curator of Historic Ornament\, Design\, and Architecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, illuminates the little understood but fundamental role of drawing in the design practice of Gothic artists and craftsmen across a range of disciplines. \nPlease join us for a dynamic afternoon of talks. \nThe Master Drawings Symposium celebrates recipients of the Ricciardi Prize. Learn more about the prize and the past winners here. \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation and Master Drawings\, and in association with Master Drawings New York 2025.  \nThis event was made possible through the generous support of the Tavolozza Foundation.  \n  \n                            \nImage: Lorenz Lechler and workshop\, Design for a Monumental Sacrament House (detail)\, 1502. Pen and two types of ink (carbon black and iron gall) over blind ruling\, 17th-century inscription in pen and ink\, on parchment. Purchase\, The Cloisters Collection\, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift\, and Harry G. Sperling Fund\, 2022\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-mdj-symposium/ LOCATION:Villa Albertine\, The Payne Whitney Mansion\, 972 5th Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10075\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/tr-54ab-2022-3-e1765427661565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T150000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T041102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T155825Z UID:10000145-1770040800-1770044400@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Winslow Homer at Cooper Hewitt DESCRIPTION: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 presentation\, Dr. Diana Greenwold\, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Lunder Curator of American Art at the National Museum of Asian Art\, Smithsonian will explore the Cooper Hewitt’s rich collection of Homer’s works on paper as a unique means to chart this artist’s fascinating artistic evolution.   \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with Cooper Hewitt and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. \n                               \nImage: Winslow Homer (1836–1910)\, Tree Roots on a Hillside\, Prout’s Neck (detail)\, 1884. Charcoal\, brush and white gouache on laid paper. Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, Gift of Charles Savage Homer\, Jr.\, 1912-12-91. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-winslow-homer-cooper-hewitt/ LOCATION:Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, 2 East 91st Street\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Winslow-Homer-CH-Event-scaled-e1765515169565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T120000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T035113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T014921Z UID:10000144-1770028200-1770033600@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Drawing in the Netherlands\, ca. 1550-1650: New Research DESCRIPTION: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. \nSpeakers:\nA Master of Blue Landscapes: On a New Addition to the Frits Lugt Collection\nStijn Alsteens\, Director\, Fondation Custodia\, Paris \nJacques de Gheyn II: Innovation and Experimentation in Dutch Drawing\nSusanne Bartels\, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow\, Division of European and American Art\, Harvard Art Museums  \nFrustrated Ambition: Collaboration and Conflict in a Series of Drawings by David Vinckboons and Paulus de Kempenaer\nDaan van Heesch\, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings\, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) \n Crispijn van de Passe II on Parchment\nJoanna Sheers Seidenstein\, Associate Curator\, Department of Drawings and Prints\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. \nThis event was made possible through the generous support of the Indian Point Foundation\, The Delegation of Flanders to the USA\, and The Consulate General of Belgium in New York. \n  \n                               \nImage: Crispijn de Passe the Younger (1594–1670)\, Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess (detail)\, 1635-40. Metalpoint on prepared parchment (tafelet)\, inset into a painted mount. The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Frits and Rita Markus Fund\, 2024. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-the-met-drawing-in-the-netherlands/ LOCATION:Sacerdote Lecture Hall\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/DP-40390-001-scaled-e1765423867565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260201T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260201T113000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251211T030715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T205629Z UID:10000143-1769941800-1769945400@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Considering Collections: New Curatorial Approaches to Northern Drawings DESCRIPTION: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 give short presentations about their exhibitions and how they engage with their respective collections\, followed by a lively panel conversation about their curatorial projects and experiences. \nPanelists:\nOlenka Horbatsch\, Curator of Dutch\, Flemish and German prints and drawings\, 1400-1800 at the British Museum\, London\nEarly Netherlandish drawings 1400–1600\nBritish Museum\,  April 16 – September 20\, 2026 \nSarah Mallory\, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum\, New York\nRembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic\nMorgan Library & Museum\, October 23\, 2026 – January 31\, 2027\n\nElizabeth R. Mattison\, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art\, Dartmouth\, Hanover\, NH\nDrawing Taught in all its Branches: Selections from the Collection before 1820 \nHood Museum of Art\, March 20 – May 22\, 2027 \nAnita V. Sganzerla\, Curator for the Katrin Bellinger Collection\, London\nImagining the artist at work in Northern drawings – recent acquisitions \nModerators:\nAlesa Boyle\, Co-founder & CEO\, Trois Crayons\, London\nGreg Rubinstein\, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings\, Worldwide at Sotheby’s \n__\nPanelist bios: \nOlenka Horbatsch is (since 2017) curator of Dutch\, Flemish and German prints and drawings (pre 1880) at the British Museum. Before joining the Museum\, she completed her PhD at the University of Toronto on Netherlandish printmaking and obtained museum experience in Toronto\, Berlin and Amsterdam. Her previous exhibition projects include Rembrandt and Prague Mannerism. After the forthcoming Netherlandish drawings exhibition\, she will be working on Rubens. She is also co-editing a volume of the NKJ (Netherlands Yearbook of History of Art) on drawings for 2027. \nSarah W. Mallory is the Annette and Oscar de la Renta assistant curator of drawings and prints at The Morgan Library & Museum. She previously held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Frick Collection\, and Harvard Art Museums\, among other institutions. She holds M.A. degrees from Parsons the New School for Design\, The Institute of FIne Arts at New York University\, and Harvard University\, where she also completed her PhD. Her work focuses on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art\, environmental histories\, and colonial legacies. Her work has appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals\, including Master Drawings. She also co-edited and contributed several essays to the volume Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade (Brill\, 2025). \nElizabeth Rice Mattison is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth. A specialist in the art of the early modern Low Countries\, she focuses on the history of the reception\, circulation\, and materials of artworks\,  especially of works on paper and sculpture. Her recent publications include the co-authored book Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe\, 1400–1750\, distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024 and articles in Simiolus\, Netherlands Yearbook for Art History\, Source\, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal among other venues. She has recently organized exhibitions on prints of warfare\, early modern sculpture\, and pigment production in Europe. \nAnita Viola Sganzerla has an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art. She is curator of the Katrin Bellinger Collection\, London. Recent exhibitions she has worked on include Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden\, Kupferstich-Kabinett\, 2023) and Artists at Work (The Courtauld Gallery\, 2018). A specialist in early modern Italian art\, she has a particular research interest in the technical and conceptual complexity of works on paper\, and the relationship between painting and the graphic arts. Amongst her current projects\, Magic & Mess: The Artist’s Studio Revealed is scheduled to open at Leighton House in Fall 2026. She previously lectured at the Victoria & Albert Museum\, The Courtauld Institute and the University of Kent\, and was a print room assistant at the Courtauld Gallery. \nModerator Bios: \n  \nAlesa Boyle is an American who has worked in the London art market since 2017. CEO & Co-Founder of Mariette & Co.\, the parent company behind Trois Crayons\, which she likewise Co-Founded\, Alesa was previously Gallery Director and Head of Research at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art. She leads on the development of future editions of the TC Drawings Hub and their wider projects. \nGregory Rubinstein\, Senior Director and Head of the Old Master Drawings Department Worldwide\, joined Sotheby’s in 1990 after working at the National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C.\, and at the Royal Collection\, Windsor Castle. As Worldwide Head of Old Master Drawings since 1993\, he has overseen well over 100 specialist drawings sales in London\, New York\, Amsterdam\, Paris and Milan. Among the most notable have been those of the Klaver Collection (Amsterdam\, 1994)\, The Bodmer and Castle Howard Michelangelos (New York\, 1998\, and London 2001)\, the Koenigs Collection (New York\, 2001)\, The Unicorno Collection (Amsterdam\, 2004)\, the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection (New York\, 2008)\, the Robert Lebel Collection (Paris\, 2009) and the Hoesch Collection (London\, 2010). \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with Trois Crayons and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. We are grateful to Sotheby’s New York for generously providing the venue for this event.  \n                                     \nImage: Maarten de Vos\, Preparatory Drawing for Poverty Brings Forth Humility (detail)\, ca. 1585\, pen and ink with brown wash on laid paper. Hood Museum of Art\, Dartmouth; purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund\, D.984.2.1. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-considering-collections/ LOCATION:Sotheby’s New York\, 945 Madison Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10021\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/RS15916_d-984-2-1_001-17_cr-scaled-e1765425400565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T190000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251210T034034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T161704Z UID:10000142-1769880600-1769886000@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Collector Conversations: Talking Drawings DESCRIPTION: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 taste remain. How much insight does belonging to an artistic family bring? Does having a personal practice of translating ideas onto paper create a deeper understanding of exploratory works? Join us for a lively and engaging discussion with a second-generation collector who has lived a life with drawings\, led by Jennifer Tonkovich\, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Morgan Library & Museum. \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation and The Society for the History of Collecting\, in association with Master Drawings New York 2026.  \n                            \nImage: Fra Bartolommeo (1472 – 1517)\, One Angel Blowing a Trumpet\, and Another Holding a Standard (detail)\, c. 1500. Pen and brown ink\, squared in red chalk for transfer on laid paper. Woodner Collection\, Gift of Andrea Woodner\, National Gallery of Art\, Washington DC. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-shc-collector-convo/ LOCATION:Stephen Ongpin Fine Art\, Exhibiting at Adam Williams Fine Art\, 24 East 80th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/one_angel_blowing_a_trumpet_and_another_holding_a_standard_2006.11.5-scaled-e1765337931565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T160000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251210T030811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T161722Z UID:10000141-1769783400-1769788800@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Lines of a Nation: Early American Drawings and Their Legacy DESCRIPTION: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 United States as they forged an image for themselves\, and how drawing offers an important perspective in this conceptualization. \nPanelists: \nMark Mitchell\, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture\, Yale University Art Gallery \nChristina Michelon\, Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints & Drawings\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston \nStuart P. Feld\, Collector and President & Director of Hirschl & Adler \nModerator: \nAmy Torbert\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art\, Saint Louis Art Museum \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation and The Winter Show\, and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026.  \n                            \nImage: Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911)\, Compositional study for “The Spirit of Light\,” lunette in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg\, 1902–1908. Chalks and graphite on dark brown wove paper. Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection\, Yale University Art Gallery URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-tws-american-drawings/ LOCATION:The Winter Show\, Park Avenue Armory\, 643 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ag-obj-63210-0006-pub-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T123000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251210T025215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T161737Z UID:10000140-1769770800-1769776200@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 - Drawing Time: Viollet-le-Duc’s Investigations of Natural and Human Histories DESCRIPTION: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 also the first to spotlight the primacy of drawing in his career. Spanning four decades\, the exhibition gathers over 150 works that animate both history and nature—antique theatres and medieval cathedrals reborn on paper\, Alpine landscapes dissected with geological precision\, even bold speculations on climate and race. Bressani will reveal how Viollet-le-Duc’s art was driven by a single obsession: making time visible. In this\, he belonged to a century equally fascinated by the mysteries of temporality—pursued by geologists\, ethnologists\, archaeologists\, and social theorists alike. \nMartin Bressani is William C. Macdonald Emeritus Professor at McGill University’s Peter G-H Fu School of Architecture in Montréal. He is the author of Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 1814-1879 (Ashgate\, 2014)\, and co-editor of Gothic Revival Worldwide. A.W.N. Pugin’s Global Influence (Leuven University Press\, 2017)\, The Companions to the History of Architecture – Nineteenth-Century Architecture (Wiley Blackwell\, 2017)\, and Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture (MIT Press\, 2024). \n__ \nThis DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation and Bard Graduate Center Gallery\, and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026.  \n                            \nImage: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879). The Glacier du Bois from above Chamonix\, with the Aiguilles du Dru and Verte above\, restored to their appearance in the Ice Age\, August 1874. Graphite\, ink\, watercolor\, and gouache on paper. Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie\, Charenton-le-Pont\, I/2024/12-40127. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-bard-graduate-center-gallery-viollet-le-duc/ LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center Gallery\, 18 West 86th St\, New York City\, NY\, 10024\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/VLD-256_03r01295-scaled-e1765334930565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260208 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251208T060228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T192654Z UID:10000138-1769558400-1770508799@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 DESCRIPTION: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. \nEvents are free but registration is required.\nIf an event is full\, please join the waitlist. \n_______________________ \nEVENT PROGRAM \n  \n \nWednesday\, January 28\, 1pm\nPrinceton University Art Museum\, Elm Drive\, Princeton University\, New Jersey \nFace to Face & Exploring the Princeton University Art Museum Drawings Collection \nExhibition Tour and Study Room Session\nLed by Laura Giles\, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr.\, Class of 1970\, Curator of Prints and Drawings\, Princeton University Art Museum\nand Jun Nakamura\, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings\, Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton  \n \n___ \n \n\nFriday\, January 30\, 11am\nBard Graduate Center Gallery\, 18 West 86th Street \n Drawing Time: Viollet-le-Duc’s Investigations of Natural and Human Histories\nExhibition Tour Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds\nLed by Martin Bressani\, the Co-curator of the exhibition and the William C. Macdonald Emeritus Professor at McGill University’s Peter G-H Fu School of Architecture in Montréal \n \n___ \n  \n \nFriday\, January 30\, 2:30pm\nThe Winter Show\nPark Avenue Armory\,  643 Park Avenue\n\nLines of a Nation: Early American Drawings and Their Legacy\nPresentations and Panel Discussion\nwith\nMark Mitchell\, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture\, Yale University Art Gallery\nChristina Michelon\, Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints & Drawings\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\nStuart P. Feld\, Collector and President & Director of Hirschl & Adler\nModerated by: Amy Torbert\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art\, Saint Louis Art Museum \n \n___ \n \nSaturday\, January 31\, 5:30pm\nThe Society for the History of Collecting\nAdam Williams Fine Art\, 24 East 80th Street \nCollector Conversation: Talking Drawings\nled by Jennifer Tonkovich\, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Morgan Library & Museum.\n \n___ \n \n \nSunday\, February 1\, 10:30am\nTrois Crayons and Sotheby’s New York\n945 Madison Avenue \nConsidering Collections: New Curatorial Approaches to Northern Drawings\nPresentations and Panel Discussion\nwith\nOlenka Horbatsch\, Curator of Dutch\, Flemish and German prints and drawings\, 1400-1800\, British Museum\, London\nSarah Mallory\, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York\nElizabeth R. Mattison\, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art\, Dartmouth College\nAnita V. Sganzerla\, Curator for the Katrin Bellinger Collection\, London\nModerators:\nAlesa Boyle\, Co-founder & CEO\, Trois Crayons\, London\nGreg Rubinstein\, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings\, Worldwide at Sotheby’s \n \n___ \n \nSunday\, February  1\, 5pm\nChristie’s New York\, 20 Rockefeller Plaza \nOld Master Drawings\nLecture \nJoin our mailing list for full event details \n___ \n \n\nMonday\, February 2\, 10:30am\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 5th Avenue \nDrawing in the Netherlands\, ca. 1550-1650: New Research\nPresentations\nfrom\nStijn Alsteens\, Director\, Fondation Custodia\, Paris\nSusanne Bartels\, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow\, Division of European and American Art\, Harvard Art Museums\nDaan van Heesch\, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings\, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)\nJoanna Sheers Seidenstein\, Associate Curator\, Department of Drawings and Prints\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art \nSponsored by the India Point Foundation\,\nThe Delegation of Flanders to the USA and The Consulate General of Belgium in New York\n\n\n___ \n  \n \nMonday\, February  2\, 2pm\nCooper Hewitt\, 2 East 91st Street\n \nWinslow Homer at Cooper Hewitt\nStudy Room Session\nLed by Diana Greenwold\, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Lunder Curator of American Art at the National Museum of Asian Art\, Smithsonian \n\n____ \n \nTuesday\, February 3\, 4pm\nMaster Drawings\nVilla Albertine\, 972 5th Avenue \nAnnual Master Drawings Symposium 2026\nScholar Presentations\nwith\nGiovanni Lusi\, Ph.D. student\, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa\, winner of the 2026 Ricciardi Prize\nFemke Speelberg\, Curator of Historic Ornament\, Design\, and Architecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, runner-up of the 2025 Ricciardi Prize\n \nSponsored by the Tavolozza Foundation \n \n____ \n \nWednesday\, February 4\, 5:30pm\nThe Conservation Center of the\nInstitute of Fine Arts\, New York University\n1 East 78th Street \nDrawings in the Round: Perspectives on French and Belgian Drawings \nPresentations and Panel Discussion\nwith\nShana Cooperstein\, Assistant Professor of Art History\, IE University\, Spain\nLaurel Garber\, Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings and the Philadelphia Art Museum\nHarriet Stratis\, Paper Conservator and Scholar\nModerator:\nEmmelyn Butterfield-Rosen\, Associate Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University\n \n \n___ \n \nThursday\, February 5\, 9:30am\nMorgan Library & Museum\, 225 Madison Avenue \nEarly Hours Exhibition Tour of Renoir Drawings\nLed by Sarah Lees\, Research Associate and exhibition co-curator\, The Morgan Library & Museum \n \n___ \n \nThursday\, February 5\, 5pm\nThe Frick Collection\, 10 East 71st Street \nSketch Night\nDrawing in the Galleries \n \n___ \n  \n \nFriday\, February 6\, 10am\nHispanic Society Museum and Library\, 613 West 155th Street \nFashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder\nPrivate Exhibition Viewing of Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated\, 1550-1700 and Panel Conversation\nCurator Talk led by Amanda Wunder\, exhibition curator and professor of History and Art History at the City University of New York (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center). \n \n___ \n \nFriday\, February 6\, 2pm\nWest Harlem Art Fund\nNational Arts Club\, 15 Gramercy Park South \nThe Importance of Jewelry in Portraiture Drawings: Symbols\, Power and Secrets\nPanel Discussion\nwith\nBrian Albert\, Co-founder of DSF Antique Jewelry\, New York\nLaura Engel\, Professor\, Duquesne University\, Pittsburgh\, PA\nSanjay Kapoor\, Director of Kapoor Galleries Inc\, New York\nAyala Naphtali\, Metalsmith and Jewelry Maker\, New York\nKim Nelson\, Assistant Chair of Jewelry Design\, The Fashion Institute of Technology\, New York\nBenjamin Zucker\, Gem Expert\, New York\nModerator:\nSavona Bailey-McClain\, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund\n \n \n_____________ \n  \nImage: Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911)\, Study Head for Ophelia (detail). Pastel on paper. Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection\, Yale University Art Gallery URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Abbey-Ophelia-YUAG-2026-scaled-e1765173218565.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T160000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20251001T041306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T031803Z UID:10000133-1762527600-1762531200@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Exhibition Tour at the Morgan Library and Museum DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Tour of Renoir Drawings\nLed by Rebecca Pollak\, Associate Paper Conservator\, Thaw Conservation Center\, Morgan Library & Museum\nand Sarah Lees\, Research Associate\, Morgan Library & Museum \nThis 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. \n__ \nExhibition Information: \nWhile the paintings of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) have become icons of Impressionism\, his drawings\, watercolors\, and pastels are far less widely known. In fact\, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career. This exhibition explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas\, plan compositions\, and interpret both landscape and the human figure. \nThematic sections will cover the full span of the artist’s career\, ranging from academic studies he made as a student\, to on-the-spot impressions of contemporary urban and rural life\, to finished\, formal portraits\, to intimate sketches of friends and family completed late in life. In-depth case studies of favored themes and preparatory work for landmark canvases will further illuminate Renoir’s practice of drawing. \nInspired by the major gift to the Morgan of a large-scale preparatory sketch for one of Renoir’s most significant paintings\, The Great Bathers\, this exhibition is the first in a century to explore the artist’s works on paper in depth. Organized by the Morgan Library Museum and the Musée d’Orsay\, Paris\, Renoir Drawings brings together nearly one hundred drawings\, pastels\, watercolors\, prints\, and a small selection of paintings\, enabling visitors to engage with Renoir’s creative process while offering insights into his artistic methods over five decades. \nOrganized by Colin B. Bailey\, Katharine J. Rayner Director\, and Sarah Lees\, Research Associate. \nRenoir Drawings is organized by the Morgan Library & Museum and the Musée d’Orsay. \n___ \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Morgan Library & Museum as part of On Drawings 2025. \n      \nImage: Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)\, Portrait of a Girl (Elisabeth Maître)\, 1879. Pastel on Ingres paper. The ALBERTINA Museum\, Vienna – The Batliner Collection URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-exhibition-tour-at-the-morgan/ LOCATION:The Morgan Library & Museum\, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street\, New York\, NY 10016\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Renoir-Portrait-of-Young-Girl-Albertina.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250930T214208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T031813Z UID:10000132-1762520400-1762524000@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Exhibition Tour at The Met DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Tour of Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson\nLed by Jennifer Farrell\, Jordan Schnitzer Curator\, Department of Drawings and Prints\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art \nThis 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. \n__ \nExhibition Information: \nFor over six decades\, the American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial\, social\, and economic justice. Wilson’s art reflected on and responded to the turbulent times in which he lived. His subjects included racial violence\, labor\, the writings of Richard Wright\, the Civil Rights Movement\, street scenes\, and intimate images of family life\, with a particular focus on fatherhood. Despite the power of his art and the continuing relevance of the themes he explored\, Wilson’s work has not received the recognition it deserves. \nWorking in a figurative style\, Wilson sought to portray what he called “a universal humanity.” While still a teenager\, he was struck by the absence of positive representations of Black Americans and their experiences in both museums and popular culture. To counter such prejudices and omissions\, Wilson put the experiences of Black Americans at the center and created images that portrayed dignity and strength. \nThe exhibition features over 100 artworks made over the course of Wilson’s career\, many of which have not been shown before. The exhibition begins with work he made while in art school in Boston\, where his subjects included the horrors of Nazi Germany and American racial violence\, as well as portraits of his family and neighborhood. It continues through his time in Paris\, Mexico City\, and New York\, capturing the humanity and scope of Wilson’s art. The exhibition concludes with Wilson’s return to Boston and his focus on portraiture. Included are maquettes and works on paper for two of Wilson’s most celebrated works—his sculpture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the U.S. Capitol and the monumental sculpture Eternal Presence. \nWitnessing Humanity will be the largest exhibition of Wilson’s work and the artist’s first solo museum show in New York. Visitors will see superb examples of Wilson’s paintings\, prints\, drawings\, and sculpture\, as well as illustrations for children’s books and archival material. \nThe exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. \n___ \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with The Met as part of On Drawings 2025. \n      \nImage: John Wilson (1922-2015)\, Oracle\, Pen and black ink and black chalk\, with collaged elements. Yale University Art Gallery\, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.  URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-program-the-met/ LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/John-Wilson-Oracle-YUAG.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T110000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250930T150235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T031846Z UID:10000131-1762509600-1762513200@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Study Room visit at MoMA DESCRIPTION:Study Center visit focusing on Surrealist drawings by women artists from the collection\nLed by Samantha Friedman\, Curator\, Department of Drawings and Prints\, MoMA \nThis 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. \n__ \nIn recent years\, MoMA has actively collected drawings by Surrealist women artists to complement their rich holdings in Surrealist paintings and sculpture. Curator Samantha Friedman will share recently acquired drawings by Remedios Varo\, Leonora Carrington\, Alice Rahon\, Toyen (Marie Čermínová)\, Unica Zürn\, and others. \nLearn more about the Surrealist Women Artists in MoMA’s collection: \n\n___ \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with MoMA as part of On Drawings 2025. \n          \nImage: Remedios Varo (1908-1963)\, The Tower (La torre)\, 1947. Gouache on paper. Museum of Modern Art\, Committee on Drawings and Prints Fund. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-program-study-room-visit-at-moma/ LOCATION:MoMA\, 11 West 53 Street\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Remedios-Tower-MoMA-e1759243381653.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T193000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250930T053818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T163127Z UID:10000130-1762450200-1762457400@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Beyond Boundaries: Mapmaking DESCRIPTION:Beyond Boundaries: Mapmaking\nPanel Discussion \nEven 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 scholars expand on mapmaking traditions to suggest new ways of seeing and placing ourselves. From early hand-drawn maps to the tools and techniques that render mapmaking possible\, from the juxtaposition of distinct histories of movement to the creation of new worlds\, this panel brings together speakers with vastly different perspectives to reflect on the history of drawing maps and consider how mapping—past and present—shapes our understanding of place and invites us to draw it anew. \nSpeaker Bios \nEmily Bowe is the Assistant Director of the Leventhal Map & Education Center\, where she oversees the Center’s public outreach and operations. Recently\, she served as co-curator of the Center’s 2024-25 exhibition Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew our World\, which explored the early history of computer cartography in Massachusetts. She brings a background as a designer\, cartographer\, and researcher with interests in maps\, urban infrastructure\, and community data practices to her work. Her academic training was at the Parsons School of Design at The New School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar. \nJosh Dorman is an artist who recontextualizes antique images–including published maps\, engravings\, and diagrams–within fantastical drawn and painted worlds. Dorman’s work explores mythical landscapes\, notions of collapsed time\, and ideas of altered boundaries and states through multi-layered imagery. He probes unfamiliar\, obsolete\, and cryptic systems. Born in 1966 in Baltimore\, Dorman graduated from Skidmore College in 1988 and received his MFA from Queens College in 1992. He lives and works in New York City\, where he teaches drawing at The Spence School. His work is represented by Ryan Lee Gallery in New York and Billis Williams in Los Angeles\, and is in the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy\, MA; Butler Institute of American Art\, OH; International Collage Center\, PA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center\, NY; Memory Bridge Foundation\, IL; Minneapolis Institute of Art\, MN; Naples Museum\, FL; Springfield Art Museum\, MO; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College\, NY.  \nNoah Goldrach is a specialist in the Books and Manuscripts department at Sotheby’s\, New York. With over a decade of experience cataloging and researching rare and antiquarian books\, he has dealt extensively with both printed and manuscript maps. He was previously an appraiser in the Rare Books department at Doyle Auctions\, and before that worked for Daniel Crouch Rare Books\, one of the world’s leading specialist dealers in antiquarian maps and atlases. Throughout his career\, Noah has worked with many significant hand-drawn maps\, ranging from the archive of a New York City surveyor’s firm\, comprising hundreds of 18th- and 19th-century maps and plans\, to an important 1531 portolan chart of the world by Vesconte Maggiolo. \nT.K. McClintock is the founding Director of Studio TKM and remains Consulting Conservator to Studio TKM Associates\, a facility for the conservation of fine art and historic works on paper that serves institutions\, government and non-profit agencies and private individuals in North America\, Europe and Asia. He has lectured and published on several areas of focus including cartographic and architectural records\, historic wallcoverings\, and the intersection of Asian and Western conservation practice. He was trained at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Conservation and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation\, the International Institute for Conservation\, and the American Academy in Rome. \nOrganized & moderated by Lisa Conte\, Assistant Professor of Paper Conservation and Co-Chair\, Conservation Center\, Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University\, & Daniella Berman\, Ph.D.\, Director of Programs and Partnerships\, The Drawing Foundation \n___ \nThis event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with Conservation Center\, NYU IFA as part of On Drawings 2025. \n  \n          \nImage: Detail of Urbano Monte’s Manuscript Wall Map of the World (Composite map of Tavola 1-60)\, 1587\, 40 x 51 cm. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection\, 10130.087 URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-program-ifa-cc-beyond-boundaries/ LOCATION:Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University\, 1 East 78th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-5.50.14-PM-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T160000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250930T045646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T031855Z UID:10000129-1762439400-1762444800@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Study Room Visit at the Brooklyn Museum DESCRIPTION:Study Center visit focused on highlights of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of European drawings\nLed by Lisa Small\, Senior Curator\, European Art\, Brooklyn Museum \nThis 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. \n___ \nMore about the history of the European art collection at the Brooklyn Museum: \n\n\n\nThe Brooklyn Institute\, a precursor of the Brooklyn Museum\, began collecting work by European artists when the building on Eastern Parkway opened in 1897. These European artworks were the first objects created outside of the United States to enter the collection. Some of the earliest acquisitions\, such as Giovanni della Robbia’s The Resurrection of Christ and James Tissot’s Life of Christ\, offer a preview of what would become two of the collection’s strengths: art made in the Renaissance era and in late 19th-century France. \nIn 1900\, after a blockbuster international tour\, the institute had the opportunity to acquire Tissot’s series of 350 watercolors depicting the life of Christ and related works. Funds were raised by the Board of Trustees and a public subscription advertised in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Today\, works by Tissot make up nearly a tenth of the European Art collection. \nOver the first half of the 20th century\, the Brooklyn Museum built an important collection of early Renaissance gold-ground paintings. In 1995\, the institution acquired Nardo di Cione’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints\, considered one of the most significant 14th-century altarpieces in the United States. In 2000\, the altarpiece’s long-lost pinnacle\, Christ Blessing\, was found and added to the collection. \nAt the same time\, the institute focused on Impressionism and other early modern art movements\, adding significant works by Berthe Morisot and Claude Monet to the collection before its peer institutions in New York did. Today\, the collection includes important works by well-known artists such as Edgar Degas\, Paul Cézanne\, and Camille Pissarro. Other notable holdings include a comprehensive group of German Expressionist prints\, an excellent impression of Pablo Picasso’s Minotauromachia\, a rare and complete trial proof set of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes’s Caprichos\, and more than 60 bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin. \nThe Museum is currently working toward a refreshed and reimagined installation of the collection that will continue to explore European art in new contexts. In the meantime\, many of our stars are touring the world in the traveling exhibition French Moderns: Monet to Matisse\, 1850–1950. \n___ \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum as part of On Drawings 2025. \n          \nImage: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch\, 1853–1890). Cypresses (Les Cyprès)\, June 1889. Brown ink and graphite on wove Latune et Cie Balcons paper\, 24 3/8 x 18 5/8 in. (61.9 x 47.3 cm) Other: 24 1/2 x 18in. (62.2 x 45.7cm). Brooklyn Museum\, Frank L. Babbott Fund and A. Augustus Healy Fund\, 38.123. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-program-study-room-brooklyn-museum/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Museum\, 200 Eastern Parkway\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238-6052\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/38.123_SL3-e1759207865471.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T130000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250930T042439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T031905Z UID:10000128-1762428600-1762434000@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Exhibition Tour & Study Room Visit at The Whitney DESCRIPTION:Study Center visit focused on the drawings of Claes Oldenburg and\nExhibition Tour of the installation Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life\nLed by Antonia Pocock\, Curatorial Assistant\, Whitney Museum of American Art\nand Eli Harrison\, Curatorial Fellow\, Sondra Gilman Study Center\, Whitney Museum of American Art \nThis 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. \n___ \nMore about the exhibition: \n\n\n\nBest 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 the world around him. Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life focuses on the artist’s drawings from the 1960s in which he playfully reimagined the spaces—streets\, stores\, homes—and objects of daily life. This selection from the Whitney’s extensive collection of Oldenburg’s works on paper attests to his wide range as a draftsman and expanded definition of life drawing. \nOldenburg’s earliest body of work in this exhibition\, The Street (1959–60)\, channels influences from everyday modes of drawing\, such as urban graffiti and children’s art\, into visceral portrayals of city life. Oldenburg turned to comics and advertising illustration as inspiration for his two subsequent series\, The Store (1961–64) and The Home (1963–69)\, which include exuberant drawings of food\, clothing\, and household appliances that informed his colorful\, cartoonish “soft” sculptures. In 1965 Oldenburg began sketching enlarged versions of his favorite commonplace items—including fire hydrants\, baked potatoes\, and teddy bears—towering over cityscapes. Although these works were titled Proposed Colossal Monuments (1965–69)\, they remained fanciful notions until Oldenburg began building large-scale\, outdoor sculptures in 1969. \nClaes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life is organized by Antonia Pocock\, Curatorial Assistant. \n___ \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of On Drawings 2025. \n          \nImage: Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022)\, Typewriter Erasers—Position Studies\, 1970. Colored pencil and watercolor on paper. Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation\, Inc.\, Leonard A. Lauder\, President. © Claes Oldenburg \n  URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-program-tour-the-whitney/ LOCATION:Whitney Museum of American Art\, 99 Gansevoort Street\, New York\, NY\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Oldenburg-Whitney-2002_62_cropped-e1759204947659.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T110000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250930T035134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T191811Z UID:10000127-1762423200-1762426800@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 - Exhibition Tour at The Drawing Center DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Tour of Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena\nLed by Olivia Shao\, Burger Collection and TOY Meets Art Curator\, The Drawing Center \nThis 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. \n___ \nMore about the exhibition: \nVoice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena explores the profound mysteries at the intersection of human experience\, belief\, and the unknown\, focusing specifically on UFOs and paranormal phenomena. As declassified government reports and an increasing media presence bring these topics into the spotlight\, this exhibition examines the cultural\, psychological\, and metaphysical dimensions of these mysteries. What role do UFOs and paranormal phenomena play in shaping our understanding of the universe\, and how do they challenge or expand our beliefs about humanity’s place within it? \nThrough both contemporary art and historical works\, the exhibition traces diverse artistic responses to these phenomena\, drawing from religious iconography\, psychological interpretations\, technological advancements\, and theories of inter-dimensional space-time. From ancient spirit drawings to speculative visions of the future\, the show offers a broad lens on how humanity has sought to depict\, interpret\, and question the unknown\, engaging with the ways in which these themes have influenced art\, culture\, and collective imagination over time. The project takes its title from a 1931 painting by René Magritte\, which will be on view in the exhibition. \nFeatured Artists: Shusaku Arakawa\, Roy Ascott\, Stanley Brouwn\, Alexandru Chira\, Noland Oswald Dennis\, Trisha Donnelly\, Isa Genzken\, Attributed to B Henderson (Arapaho Central Plains)\, Char Jeré\, Jutta Koether\, Pope.L\, René Magritte\, Paulina Peavy\, Walter Pichler\, Howardena Pindell\, Sigmar Polke\, Adam Putnam\, Attributed to He Nupa Wanica (Joseph No Two Horns)\, José Trejo-Maya\, Melvin Way\, David Weiss\, Stephen Willats\, John Zorn\n___ \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with The Drawing Center as part of On Drawings 2025. \n          \nImage: Adam Putnam\, Visualization #136\, 2021–22. Ink on Paper\, 5 1/2 x 4 inches (14.0 x 10.2 cm). Courtesy of the Artist and P•P•O•W\, New York URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025-tdc/ LOCATION:The Drawing Center\, 35 Wooster Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Upcoming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/VS01_Putnam_136.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251108 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250826T213418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T031927Z UID:10000116-1762387200-1762559999@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:ON DRAWINGS 2025 DESCRIPTION:The Drawing Foundation invites you to ON DRAWINGS 2025. Join us in New York City on November 6th and 7th for two full days of events and conversations among curators\, collectors\, conservators\, and artists focused on historical\, modern\, and contemporary drawings. \nRegistration is required for all events and begins on October 1. \nON DRAWINGS events are available only to MEMBERS of The Drawing Foundation. \n_______________________ \nFULL EVENT PROGRAM \n \nExhibition Tour of Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena\nLed by Olivia Shao\, Burger Collection and TOY Meets Art Curator\, The Drawing Center \n \n___ \n \nStudy Center visit focused on the drawings of Claes Oldenburg and\nExhibition Tour of the installation Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life\nLed by Antonia Pocock\, Curatorial Assistant\, Whitney Museum of American Art\nand Eli Harrison\, Curatorial Fellow\, Sondra Gilman Study Center\, Whitney Museum of American Art \n \n___ \n \nStudy Center visit focused on highlights of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of European drawings\nLed by Lisa Small\, Senior Curator\, European Art\, Brooklyn Museum \n \n___ \n \nBeyond Boundaries: Mapmaking\nEven 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 scholars expand on mapmaking traditions to suggest new ways of seeing and placing ourselves. From early hand-drawn maps to the tools and techniques that render mapmaking possible\, from the juxtaposition of distinct histories of movement to the creation of new worlds\, this panel brings together speakers with vastly different perspectives to reflect on the history of drawing maps and consider how mapping—past and present—shapes our understanding of place and invites us to draw it anew. \nPresented in partnership with the Conservation Center\, NYU IFA \n \n___ \n \nStudy Center visit focusing drawings by Surrealist woman artists from the collection\nLed by Samantha Friedman\, Curator\, Department of Drawings and Prints\, MoMA \n\n___ \n \nExhibition Tour of Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson\nLed by Jennifer Farrell\, Jordan Schnitzer Curator\, Department of Drawings and Prints\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art \n \n___ \n\nExhibition Tour of Renoir Drawings\nLed by Rebecca Pollak\, Associate Paper Conservator\, Thaw Conservation Center\, The Morgan Library & Museum\nand Sarah Lees\, Research Associate\, The Morgan Library & Museum \n \n_____________                   \nWe are grateful to our members\, partners\, supporters\, and Master Drawings New York\, whose contributions help to make these events possible. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/on-drawings-2025/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/OnDrawings-Placeholder-Header-2025v3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T120000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250911T154434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T032101Z UID:10000117-1760526000-1760529600@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour - Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings DESCRIPTION: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 about her unique practice and approach to depicting the female form. \nFree event: Registration is required. Registration begins on September 15 at 9am.  \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation.  \n__ \nExhibition Information: \nOne of the most original and influential artists of the past three decades\, Lisa Yuskavage (American b. 1962) creates works that affirm the integrity of her media (painting\, drawing and printmaking) while challenging conventional art historical precedents. At once confrontational and meditative\, her works blur the boundaries between high and low art\, exploring traditional genres—the nude\, portraiture\, landscape and still life—with a contemporary eye to issues of female transgression and empowerment rooted in popular culture. \nLisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s drawings. Incorporating drawings from the early nineties to the present and including sketches and finished studies\, the exhibition will feature a wide range of her explorations with materials including work in graphite\, pen\, Conte\, pastel\, charcoal\, distemper\, monotype\, gouache\, watercolor\, acrylic and ink on paper. It will chart Yuskavage’s career-long inquiry into how process and material experimentation create entirely new ways to find images. From her earliest drawings of imagined figures and still lives\, through a period of investigation into what constitutes a model\, to her recent studio and landscape scenes synthesizing the real and the imagined into a new kind of fictional reality\, Yuskavage’s drawings give insight into the way we see and comprehend the world. Within the jewel-like space of the Thaw Gallery\, the exhibition provides an immersive experience\, allowing the viewer to enter the artist’s mind. \n  \n  \n \n__ \nImage: Lisa Yuskavage\, (b. 1962)\, Sketchbook page for Blonde Brunette and Redhead\, 1995. Graphite\, collage\, oil\, and pastel. Force Villareal Collection. © Lisa Yuskavage Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/exhibition-tour-lisa-yuskavage-2025/ LOCATION:The Morgan Library & Museum\, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street\, New York\, NY 10016\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Yuskavage_Sketchbook-page-for-Blonde-Brunette-and-Redhead-1995_YUSLI0776_REPRO_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T103000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250529T033813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250802T045959Z UID:10000098-1753435800-1753439400@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour - Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers DESCRIPTION: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 depictions the flora found in the fields of Sweden. \nFree event: Registration is required \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation.  \n__ \nExhibition Information: \nIn 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 to the rhythms and bounty of the blooming season. \nBreaking with traditional botanical art\, af Klint juxtaposed her exquisitely rendered blossoms with precisely drawn diagrams: a blooming sunflower is echoed by nested circles; a marsh marigold is accompanied by mirrored spirals; a cluster of budding branches is set against checkerboards of dots and strokes. With this profusion of forms—an expansion of the abstract language for which she is best known—af Klint visualizes “what stands behind the flowers\,” demonstrating her belief that careful observation of her surroundings reveals ineffable aspects of the human condition. \nAf Klint imagined her portfolio as an atlas—or in botanical terms a flora—that details the plants of Sweden\, where she lived and worked. Hers\, however\, is a flora of the spirit\, a mapping of the natural world in spiritual terms that would stand alongside any scientific resource. Putting representation and abstraction\, close looking and envisioning\, art and botany into dialogue\, af Klint’s drawings recognize the interconnectedness of all living things. “I have shown\,” she wrote\, “that there is a connection between the plant world and the world of the soul.” \n  \n \n__ \nImage: Installation view of Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers\, 2025 URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/exhibition-tour-hilma-af-klint-what-stands-behind-the-flowers/ LOCATION:MoMA\, 11 West 53 Street\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_5637-scaled-e1748489381272.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250608T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250608T200000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081310 CREATED:20250408T125927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T034322Z UID:10000095-1749371400-1749412800@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:New York City Plein Air Festival DESCRIPTION: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. \nEn Plein Air [adjective] : the act of painting outdoors in the open air. \nJoin us for a full day of art-making in the beautiful and historic Madison Square Park. The park boasts 6.2 acres of meandering pathways and gardens in Manhattan’s only certified arboretum. Participants will have the opportunity to paint and draw in a number of locations throughout the park. Enjoy the company of fellow artists and draw inspiration from the blooming landscape and surrounding landmark architecture in this bustling yet tranquil corner of New York City. We welcome artists of all experience levels to attend this free event. \nWe encourage attendees to support the event by purchasing our New York City Plein Air Festival tote bag This branded tote will be filled with supplies from our material sponsors and can be picked up upon check in on the day of the event. \nPresented by The Drawing Foundation and Drawing New York in partnership with the Madison Square Park Conservancy. \n                  URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/new-york-city-plein-air-festival/ LOCATION:Madison Square Park\, 11 Madison Ave\, New York\, 10010\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MadPark-Teaser-e1744820722461.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T143000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081311 CREATED:20250328T185203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T140940Z UID:10000090-1745586000-1745591400@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour - Paper\, Color\, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe tour is scheduled just ahead of the final weekend of the exhibition and offers a wonderful opportunity to see these fantastic drawings before Paper\, Color\, Line closes on April 27. \nTravel tips from New York City:\nBy train: take the 8:46am Amtrak train from Penn Station\, transferring in New Haven\, CT\, arriving in Union Station in Hartford at 11:35am.\nBy bus: take the 9:40am Greyhound bus from Port Authority arriving at 12:35 to Union Station in Hartford.\nUnion Station is a 14 minute walk from the Wadsworth Atheneum. \nFor those who are interested but unable to attend we invite you to watch the wonderful lecture on the exhibition with Oliver Tostmann presented by The Drawing Foundation in association with Master Drawings New York 2025. \n__ \nMore about Paper\, Color\, Line: \nThe Wadsworth Atheneum’s rich collection of European drawings\, watercolors\, and pastels is little-known and rarely seen. Since the mid-nineteenth century\, the museum has acquired by purchase and gift a diverse group of nearly 1\,250 European drawings of impressive quality. Paper\, Color\, Line showcases about sixty to seventy highlights on view for the first time in decades. This long overdue exhibition provides a unique survey of artists engaging with the medium over a span of more than five hundred years. \nThe museum’s holdings are particularly strong in works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Renowned drawings by Gustave Courbet\, Edgar Degas\, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec will be included in this exhibition\, as well as highlights by Egon Schiele\, Paul Klee\, and Joan Miró. The collection is additionally noted for its theatrical designs\, particularly its material linked with the Ballets Russes\, which encompasses sheets by Pablo Picasso\, Léon Bakst\, and Natalia Gontcharova. Significant drawings from the Renaissance to the Rococo by artists such as Giorgio Vasari\, Carlo Maratti\, and Jean-Baptiste Greuze emphasize the timeless appeal of the medium and will complement the overview. \nOrganized along thematic lines\, Paper\, Color\, Line offers a rich overview of 500 years of draftsmanship in Europe. The variety of schools\, techniques\, and uses will make for a lively display. While the exhibition explores broader topics such as artistic education\, technical innovation\, and the art market\, it is centered on arresting works that convey the universal appeal of drawings as one of the most revealing expressions of the creative process. \n  \n \n  \nImage: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French\, 1780-1867) Portrait of Louis-Pierre Haudebourt. Pencil on paper. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Bequest of Susannah Shickman\, 2023.53.12 URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/curator-tour-paper-color-line/ LOCATION:Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art\, 600 Main Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06103\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ingres_wadsworth_2025-e1743186668914.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081311 CREATED:20250102T185925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T190104Z UID:10000077-1738776600-1738780200@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Farnese Drawings Collection DESCRIPTION:Join author Claire Van Cleave for the launch of her much anticipated publication: \n \nThe Farnese Drawings Collection\, Editori Paparo\, Naples\, 2025 \nThe 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. \nThe book\, published in English and Italian editions\, is comprised of two parts: a history of the collection and a catalogue of the drawings with a Farnese provenance remaining at Capodimonte. The opening chapters explore the intellectual atmosphere of the Palazzo Farnese during the age of Pope Paul III and the Farnese cardinals Ranuccio\, Alessandro\, and Odoardo. This is augmented by an in-depth study of three men who worked for the family and collected drawings under Farnese patronage: the major domo Conte Ludovico Tedesco\, the resident artist Giulio Clovio\, and the curator and librarian Fulvio Orisini\, and suggests that the connection each of these erudite men had with each other and also with Tommaso de’ Cavalieri created a uniquely learned environment within the palace for collecting works on paper. The scope of the original collection and its later demise is examined through contemporary inventories and archival documents. The catalogue identifies Farnese drawings in the Capodimonte collections\, taking into consideration recent publications\, and explores each sheet in terms of attribution\, style\, subject\, and how it might relate to Farnese collecting. The catalogue proposes a number of updated attributions\, including drawings newly ascribed to Parmigianino\, Bartolomeo Passarotti\, and Giovanna Garzoni. \n_ \nDr Claire Van Cleave is an independent scholar with an expertise in the study of Italian drawings. Her book is novel in its appraisal of the Farnese drawings collection as a stand-alone subject. Detached from wider Farnese studies\, the importance of the collecting of drawings within the Palazzo Farnese and its impact on the nascent history of collecting Italian drawings in Rome during the sixteenth century is given its rightful stage. Van Cleave’s book is much more than a traditional museum catalogue as it also traces the social history and cultural circumstances which influenced collecting within the palace. Richly illustrated\, it is a significant update to earlier Capodimonte publications on drawings and an important new addition to Farnese literature. \n_ \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in association with Master Drawings New York 2025. Thank you to Stephen Ongpin Fine Art for their generosity on hosting this event in their exhibition at Adam Williams Fine Art. \n  \n__ \nImage: Cover detail from The Farnese Drawings Collection\, Dr. Claire Van Cleave\, Editori Paparo\, Naples\, 2025 \n\nEvent registration begins on Thursday\, January 9 at 1pm.\nSign up for our mailing list or become a member to receive registration reminders. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/book-launch-the-farnese-drawings-collection/ LOCATION:Stephen Ongpin Fine Art\, Exhibiting at Adam Williams Fine Art\, 24 East 80th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Farnese-Drawings-Collection-cover-e1735843943281.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T190000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081311 CREATED:20250107T060044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T042723Z UID:10000078-1738692000-1738695600@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Tour for Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity\nOn view January 31-March 7\, 2025 \nJill 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 the 1920s.  Delaunay’s art includes designs for textiles\, book illustrations and fashion\, and in the use of bright color and soft mobile forms\, her art expresses the unique vibrancy of modern life. \nA fully illustrated digital catalogue with an essay by Isabelle Dervaux “Sonia Delaunay and the United States” will be available. \n__ \nThis event is organized by Jill Newhouse Gallery and The Drawing Foundation in association with Master Drawings New York 2025. \n    \nImage: Sonia Delaunay (French\, born Ukraine\, 1885-1979)\, Rhythm in Color (Rythme couleur)\, 1970. Gouache\, ink and pencil on paper. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/sonia-delaunay-simultaneity/ LOCATION:Jill Newhouse Gallery\, 4 East 81st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Delaunay-RhythmColor-1970-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T133000 DTSTAMP:20260408T081311 CREATED:20241217T052801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T031538Z UID:10000067-1738326600-1738330200@thedrawingfoundation.org SUMMARY:Crosscurrents: Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century DESCRIPTION: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. \nPanelists:\nLaurel O. Peterson\, Assistant Curator\, Yale Center for British Art\, New Haven\nAlan Templeton\, Collector\nJonny Yarker\, Libson & Yarker\, London \nModerated by: Daniella Berman\, PhD.\, Head of Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives\, The Drawing Foundation \n_ \nLaurel O. Peterson is the Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. She specializes in British works on paper produced during the long eighteenth century. Her current exhibition projects include Painters\, Ports\, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company\, 1760–1830 (YCBA\, January 2026)\, co-curated with Holly Shaffer (Brown) and Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888). Previously\, she served as the organizing curator of John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal (2019) and as co-curator of Architecture\, Theater\, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection (2021)\, both at the Morgan Library & Museum. \nAlan Templeton has been collecting art since 2000\, mainly to benefit the museums of Northern California. He has been a guest curator at both the Crocker Art Museum and the UC Berkeley Art Museum\, including monographic exhibits on William Hogarth and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. He exhibited his own original artwork\, 1987 onwards\, and his drawings were represented by the Vorpal Gallery\, 1997-2002. \nJonny Yarker is a leading dealer in British art\, he has written extensively on British art of the eighteenth century and the Grand Tour in particular. He is currently working on a book-length study of the British community in Rome entitled: Savage Pilgrims: Rome\, The British and the Grand Tour 1750 – 1798. \nDaniella Berman is a specialist of European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions and publications in addition to serving as Vice President of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture (HECAA) and a board member of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA). She is The Drawing Foundation’s Head of Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives. \n_ \nThis event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with The Winter Show\, and in association with Master Drawings New York 2025. \nThis event is free with admission to The Winter Show. \n        \nImage: Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757)\, Alan Brodrick\, 2nd Viscount Midleton (detail)\, 1725. Pastel on grayish laid paper\, laid down to canvas. Crocker Art Museum\, Gift of Alan Templeton\, 2023.76.1 \n. URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/tws-crosscurrents-cultural-exchange-in-the-eighteenth-century/ LOCATION:The Winter Show\, Park Avenue Armory\, 643 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Recordings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Rosalba-_Crocker_2023.76.1-e1734413007549.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR