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Learn about the broad range of materials and techn

Learn about the broad range of materials and techniques used by artists in Europe and the United States to create works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day. “Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors' Collections,” @metmuseum is the fourth rotation of a series of exhibits organized in celebration of the museum’s 150th anniversary. You can view examples of works featuring materials such as graphite, ink and wash, chalk, watercolor, and pastel.
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This rotation will be on view until July 26. If you can’t make it to the museum, you can see the objects and learn about the techniques on the Met website at https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/drawings-and-prints/materials-and-techniques
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(Image: Edgar Degas, “Violinist, Study for ‘The Dance Lesson’,“ pastel and charcoal on green wove paper; squared for transfer in charcoal; letterpress printing on verso, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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In the current issue of MASTER DRAWINGS (Vol 59, Issue 2), read about the fascinating role played by women in the life of seventeenth-century Venetian artist, Palma Giovane. Author and art historian, Marie-Louise Lillywhite uses new archival discoveries to shed new light also on the understudied, but important, period of Venetian art that straddles the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth.
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(Image: Palma il Giovane “Portrait of Andriana Palma Turned to the Left. Verso: Portrait of Andriana Palma Turned to the Right,” pen and brown and dark brown ink, over red chalk, on paper; framing lines in gray-brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York)

“Saul Steinberg: Visual Verse,” @artsmia featu

“Saul Steinberg: Visual Verse,” @artsmia features eight important drawings from the later part of the artist’s life. Known for his decades of work in @newtorkermag Steinberg became famous for destabilizing his audience, reorienting them to his off-kilter point of view. The exhibit will be on view until August 15.
(Image: Saul Steinberg, “Untitled,” ink, graphite, and watercolor, Minneapolis Institute of Art)
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Discover in the current issue of MASTER DRAWINGS (Vol 59, Issue 2) how sixteenth-century sculptor Alfonso Lombardi had unexpected influence on painters of his time and later. In his article, Marcello Calogero, runner up for the 3rd Annual Ricciardi Prize, analyzes a group of drawings from several important museum collections and demonstrates the role played by early modern sculpture in the naturalistic tradition of Bolognese drawing.
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(Image: Attributed to Matthias Joseph de Noël after Alfonso Lombardi, “Head of a Bearded Old Man,” black chalk with smudging on brown laid paper, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York)
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“Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection,” at our partner institution, @themorganlibrary explores the elaborate stage design drawings produced by the Bibiena family and collected by the internationally acclaimed lighting designer Jules Fisher. For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. The exhibit includes twenty-five drawings which demonstrate the range of their output -- from energetic sketches to highly finished watercolors -- which highlight the visual splendor of the baroque stage. The exhibition will be on view through September 12.
(Image: Bibiena workshop, “Stage Design: Palace Interior with Stairs to the Right," pen and brown ink and gray wash; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, photography by Janny Chiu)
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