Jean-Achille Benouville, Paris 1815 – 1891 Paris, View of Lake Nemi with the Town of Genzano in the Background, c. 1845, Fondation Custodia

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One of the highlights of The European Fine Art Fai

One of the highlights of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht, opening today, will be this seventeenth-century portrait of Admiral Maerten Harpertsz. Tromp by Dutch master Jan Lievens. Why is this drawing so significant?

Gregory Rubinstein, Senior Director and Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings at Sotheby’s Worldwide, recounts in MASTER DRAWINGS (Vol 60, Issue 1), how this long-lost portrait re-emerged and its significance to both the artist and the admiral he portrayed. Read the full story when you subscribe at https://masterdrawings.org/subscribe/ . Free digital access is also included with your subscription!

For more about this discovery, you can also read the recent feature in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/arts/jan-lievens-dutch-master.html
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(Image: Jan Lievens, “Admiral Maerten Harpertsz. Tromp,” New York, Art Market)
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“100 Great British Drawings,” @thehuntingtonli

“100 Great British Drawings,” @thehuntingtonlibrary, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA, traces the evolution of drawing in Britain from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century with rarely seen treasures from the Huntington's collection. Works by William Blake, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, and J.M.W Turner are featured, as well as examples by artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and early twentieth-century modernism. Organized chronologically, the exhibition explores portraiture, historical subjects, landscape, still life, botanical illustration, and caricature. This wonderful selection will be on view through September 5.
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(Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey,” watercolor and opaque watercolor over traces of graphite with scraping out on wove paper, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino CA)
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In our current issue read how author Sacha Zadnov

In our current issue read how author Sacha Zadnov pieces together a series of roundels from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and another sheet from a private collection in Belgium to reveal various episodes in the Story of Esther. Zadnov demonstrates how the principle sheet illustrates the stylistic evolution of early sixteenth-century Brussels. Think through this compelling analysis and the fascinating iconographic details now in MASTER DRAWINGS (Vol 60, Issue 2). Subscribe today (https://masterdrawings.org/subscribe/) for paper and digital access to MASTER DRAWINGS.
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(Image: Circle of Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, “Queen Esther hears of the Decree against the Jews,” Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink on greenish paper, highlighted with white, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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“Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick B

“Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton,” at our partner institution, @themorganlibrary in New York, showcases a twentieth-century artist about whom very little is known. Apart from small displays in cafés and bookshops in the 1950s and ‘60s, this exhibition of sixty drawings, two accordion-fold sketchbooks, and five printed works, is the first time Barton’s art is being seen by the public. Between 1958 and 1962, Barton created hundreds of drawings of striking originality. His subjects range from the intimacy of his room to the architecture of Mexican cathedrals, and from the gathering places of Beat-era San Francisco to the contours of plants. Drawing almost exclusively in pen or brush and ink, he captured his subjects in a web of line that was sometimes simple and economical, but more often complex and kaleidoscopic. You can learn more about this captivating artist at the exhibition which is on until September 11.
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(Image: Rick Barton, “Untitled [Bed with reclining figure and musicians],” Pen and ink, Rick Barton papers (Collection 2374), UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles)
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Don’t miss out on the opportunity to win the $5,000 Ricciardi Prize for an article on a drawings topic! Your work will be published as the feature in an upcoming issue of MASTER DRAWINGS. The competition, aimed at encouraging young scholars to explore and research drawings, is open to all authors under the age of 40. The deadline for submissions is NOVEMBER 15, 2022.

You can read this year's winning article in the June 2022 issue of MASTER DRAWINGS.
We encourage you to visit https://masterdrawings.org/ricciardi-prize/ for more information about requirements and how to apply.

(Image: Charles Genty, “Portrait of René Lalique,” pastel on laid paper, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris)
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