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

Master Drawings Summer 2020

June 12, 2020

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If you missed "Raphael and His Circle," @ngadc you

If you missed "Raphael and His Circle," @ngadc you can still go on a virtual tour and explore each room of the exhibition. (https://www.nga.gov/features/raphael-virtual-tour.html) The online tour enables you to read wall texts, watch related video clips, and view 26 drawings and prints in an intimate installation. The exhibit commemorated the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death.
(Image: Raphael, "The Prophets Hosea and Jonah," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
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Get a preview on July 16th of "Betye Saar: Call an

Get a preview on July 16th of "Betye Saar: Call and Response," opening September 12th at our partner institution, @themorganlibrary. Rachel Federman, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Drawings, will share her insights about the exhibit. The exhibition looks at the relationship between Saar’s finished works and the preliminary annotated sketches she made in small notebooks throughout her career. The show will include approximately a dozen of Saar’s travel sketchbooks The free live event takes place on Instagram. (@themorganlibrary) at 4PM.
(Image: Betye Saar, "Sketchbook page for Eyes of the Beholder," November 6, 1994. Watercolor and ballpoint pen. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar)
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Explore how Venetian art influenced artists workin

Explore how Venetian art influenced artists working in Rome, rather than the other way around, through the convention-breaking research by @marcosimonebolzoni in our Summer issue (Vol 58, Issue 2), available for FREE online at https://masterdrawings.org/current-2020. Bolzoni is curator of Old Master and 19th-century Drawings of the Leon and Debra Black collection, New York, and a runner up of the Second Annual Ricciardi Prize, for this insightful paper, “Rome Looking at Venice: Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro and the Artistic Debate on Colorito and Disegno.”
(Image: Taddeo Zuccaro, "Study for a Prophet, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, German)
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See "Works On Paper: Drawn From The Collection," a

See "Works On Paper: Drawn From The Collection," at the recently reopened @bocamuseum. The exhibit showcases over 75 works culled from the museum's collection and includes drawings by George Segal, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Seurat, Alberto Giacometti and many others. It will be on view until January 3, 2021.
(Image: George Segal, "Jeff's Friends," Pastel and charcoal on paper, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida)
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"Le Dessin Sans Réserve. Collections Du Musée De

"Le Dessin Sans Réserve. Collections Du Musée Des Arts Décoratifs," (Design Without Reserve, the Collection of the @madparis), showcases masterpieces from the Paris museum's current collection with work ranging from the 16th century to present day. Five hundred works of art have been selected, including drawings by Le Brun, Watteau, Fragonard, Degas and Rodin. The exhibition is organized in the form of a symbolic alphabet, representative of the major themes of the art of drawing (A for Architecture; D for Decor; S for Seduction, and so forth). Showcased are projects for gardens, sculptures, paintings, objects, silverware and wallpaper. The exhibit will be on view until January 31, 2021.
(Image: Auguste Rodin, "Centaur and Child," Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris)
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