Master Drawings | A quarterly published by the Master Drawings Association

Latest Issues

Master Drawings, Volume 58, No 1 (Spring 2020)

Spring 2020

Master Drawings Volume 58, No. 2 (Summer 2020)

Summer 2020

Latest News

Winslow Homer, Indian Boy with Canoe, watercolor on paper, Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum Reopens

June 28, 2020

Image: Vincent van Gogh, Autograph letter: to Paul Gauguin, with a sketch of

Q&A on Artists’ Letters

June 24, 2020

Master Drawings Summer 2020

June 12, 2020

Follow Us

@masterdrawingsjournal

Hamilton fans – go see “Burton Silverman: In S

Hamilton fans – go see “Burton Silverman: In Search of the Constitution,” at the @norman_rockwell_museum in Stockbridge, MA. It showcases drawings of the founding fathers as they debated, drafted, and signed the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Silverman’s fifty artworks appeared on “In Search of the Constitution,” a television series by journalist and political commentator, Bill Moyers, and in a related book. The exhibit will be on view through September 2020. If you can’t make it to the museum, you can view the exhibit virtually at https://www.nrm.org/2020/04/burton-silverman-in-search-of-the-constitution/
(Image: Burton Silverman, “Tuesday, May 22, 1787 (Alexander Hamilton),” pastel and pencil on tonal paper, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA)
#masterdrawings #burtonsilverman #constitution #alexanderhamilton

Read an insightful review of the catalogue "Drawin

Read an insightful review of the catalogue "Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice," by Michiaki
Koshikawa, in our Summer issue (Vol 58, Issue 2), available for FREE online
at https://masterdrawings.org/current-2020.
The exhibition was on view at our partner institution, @themorganlibrary in New
York in late 2018 and at the @ngadc in early 2019. Koshikawa, a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts, points out in his review, that the catalogue was designed as a true monograph, rather than a series of essays. Luxurious color illustrations and many related drawings not shown in the exhibition provide added perspective on those that were.
(Image: Tintoretto, "Seated Male Nude," black and white chalk, squared, on blue paper, The Louvre Museum, Paris)
#masterdrawings #tintoretto #venitianart

Explore Geneviève Kristl Verdigel's investigation

Explore Geneviève Kristl Verdigel's investigation of the use of color in fifteenth-century Veneto draftsmanship, in our Summer Issue (Vol 58, Issue 2), available for FREE online at https://masterdrawings.org/current-2020. Verdigel addresses the question of whether a few colored drawings from Venice in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century should be considered eccentricities; or recognized as examples of an established graphic tradition? Read her essay, "Colore in Disegno: A Reappraisal of the Use of Color in Fifteenth-century Draftsmanship in the Veneto," to learn her conclusion.
(Image: Francesco Squarcione (follower of), "St. Christopher in Lycia," Pen and brown ink, brown wash, on pale brown paper. Some of the figures are tinted in yellow, dull red, or pale grey-blue, the sky and the buildings are faintly washed in brown or red, British Museum)
#masterdrawings #venetianart #fifteenthcenturyart #colorinvenetianart

"Drawing the Human Figure in Italy 1450-1700 Studi

"Drawing the Human Figure in Italy 1450-1700 Studi & Schizzi," at our partner institution, the , @fondationcustodia, spotlights 86 of the 600 Italian drawings in the museum's collection. It includes works by artists from the Renaissance to the Baroque period such as, Andrea del Sarto, Federico Barocci, the Carracci family, Lorenzo di Credi Palma and Guercino. The exhibition, at the newly reopened museum, was organized to mark the launch of the Fondation Custodia’s remarkable online database, giving worldwide access to the entire collection of Italian drawings held by the museum. The exhibit will be on view until September 6th.
(Image: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, "Five Studies for the Magdalen," Pen and brown ink, brown wash, Fondation Custodia, Paris)
#masterdrawings #italiandrawings #renaissanceart #baroqueart #andreadelsorto # Federico Barocci #the Carracci family, #Lorenzo di Credi Palma #guercino

"Interested in a fascinating intersection between

"Interested in a fascinating intersection between art and cartography? Read Marleen Ram's analysis of "New Drawings by Johannes Leupenius," in our Summer Issue (Vol 58, Issue 2), available for FREE online at https://masterdrawings.org/current-2020. Ram, Curator of Art Collections at the @teylersmuseum, Haarlem, discusses two notebooks of Leupenius work, to show how his role as an artist and cartographer came together.
(Image: Johannes Leupenius, "Ground Plan and Various Studies of the Country House Velseroogh in Velsen, 1684, Amsterdam," Historisch Archief van Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht)
#masterdrawings #johannesleupenius #cartography

Follow on Instagram

Events