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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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, “Head of a Woman,” pastel on paper, Promised Gift from the Collection of Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard. The Frick Collection, Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

A promised gift of drawings and pastels from Elizabeth “Betty” and Jean-Marie Eveillard to our partner institution, The Frick Collection.

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Today, MONDAYS WITH MASTER DRAWINGS spotlights the

Today, MONDAYS WITH MASTER DRAWINGS spotlights the @ngadc in Washington, DC. Established in 1941 as a gift to the American people by financier Andrew Mellon, the museum now has 31,000 drawings, watercolors and pastels dating from the eleventh century to the present. The collection includes works by artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Nanteuil, Daumier, Blake, Whistler, Cassatt, Homer and O’Keeffe. There are also sizeable holdings of post-war American works on paper. Learn more about the collection at https://www.nga.gov/collection/drawings.html
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(Image: Winslow Homer, “Mending the Nets,” watercolor and gouache over graphite, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
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“Hokusai, The Great Picture Book of Everything,” at the @britishmuseum, reveals a collection of rare, rediscovered drawings by Katsushika Hokusai – one of Japan's most celebrated artists. He is best known for his iconic print, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, popularly called The Great Wave.
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The exhibition includes 103 recently acquired drawings by Hokusai, produced in the 1820s–1840s for an illustrated encyclopedia called “The Great Picture Book of Everything.” For reasons unknown, the book was never published. The drawings on view are exceptional works which would otherwise have been destroyed as part of the woodblock printing process. If you are not able to visit the exhibition, there is a robust website, including the opportunity to view the entire collection online.
https:www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/hokusai-great-picture-book-everything/rediscovery-hokusai-drawings-everything
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The exhibit will be on view through January 30th.
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(Image: Katsushika Hokusai, “Preparatory drawing for an illustrated book, mounted on card. Banmotsu ehon daizen zu (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything), ink on paper, British Museum)
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Mystery solved! The identity of an important coll

Mystery solved! The identity of an important collector’s mark is revealed in the current issue of MASTER DRAWINGS (Vol 59, Issue 3). The mark, consisting of a large capital “C,” stamped in black ink, normally in the lower right corner, has been a persistent mystery for at least a century.
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Through meticulous detective work, Julian Brooks, Senior Curator of Drawings at the @gettymuseum, Los Angeles, and Casey Lee, curatorial assistant in the Department of Drawings, have now definitively identified the impressive collector behind the mark. Discover for yourself who it is!
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Subscribe today (https://masterdrawings.org/subscribe/) for paper and digital access to MASTER DRAWINGS. With your subscription, you can also access a full, downloadable, and searchable transcription of the catalogue of the sale of drawings consigned by the newly identified collector.
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(Image: Giovanni Da Udine, “Cock Pheasant,” watercolor, heightened with white (partly oxidized), over black chalk, on light brown prepared paper, British Museum)
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“Early Netherlandish Drawings: Themes and Proble

“Early Netherlandish Drawings: Themes and Problems,” is the focus of a stimulating Graduate Seminar to be led by Stephanie Buck, Director, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden and Austėja Mackelaitė, Anette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings, at our partner institution, The @morganlibrary. The half-day virtual event will focus on fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawings in the collections of the two organizations. In the afternoon, New York area participants will be invited to visit the Morgan’s Drawing Study Center and the exhibition Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden, where a selection of Netherlandish drawings from the two collections will be on display.
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The seminar takes place Friday, December 3rd from 10:30 am - 1 pm EST and is open to graduate students in the history of art or related fields. Applications are due November 1st. Contact drawinginstitute@themorgan.org for more information.
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(Image: Follower of Hugo van der Goes), “Kneeling Lady,” pen and two shades of brown ink, with black chalk, on paper, The Morgan Library & Museum)
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Today MONDAYS WITH MASTER DRAWINGS spotlights The

Today MONDAYS WITH MASTER DRAWINGS spotlights The @royalcollectiontrust collection of drawings and watercolors. The holdings include Italian Renaissance drawings; sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Dutch, Flemish, German and French drawings; and British drawings from the eighteenth century. There are also several thousand nineteenth-century watercolors related to the reign of Queen Victoria, and to her family and travels.
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Among the works The Royal Collection is best known for are around 85 portrait drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Learn more about the Royal Collection at https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/drawings-watercolours-and-prints
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(Image: Hans Holbein The Younger, “Anne Cresacre,” black and colored chalks, The Royal Collection Trust, London)
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