Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection
This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world鈥檚 finest private collections containing over 400 sheets. Assembled over the last fifty years, and made a promised gift to the Morgan in 1975, the collection has now been given in full to the museum by Life Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare.
Drawn to Greatness focuses on pivotal artists and key moments in the history of draftsmanship. Works by major masters from the Renaissance to the modern era will be on view, including Mantegna, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Piranesi, Watteau, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Turner, Daumier, Redon, Degas, 颁茅锄补苍苍别, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock.
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This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world鈥檚 finest private collections containing over 400 sheets. Assembled over the last fifty years, and made a promised gift to the Morgan in 1975, the collection has now been given in full to the museum by Life Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare.
Drawn to Greatness focuses on pivotal artists and key moments in the history of draftsmanship. Works by major masters from the Renaissance to the modern era will be on view, including Mantegna, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Piranesi, Watteau, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Turner, Daumier, Redon, Degas, 颁茅锄补苍苍别, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock.
Artists on show
- Andrea Mantegna
- Canaletto
- Edgar Degas
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Henri Matisse
- Honoré Daumier
- Jean-Antoine Watteau
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Gauguin
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Vincent van Gogh
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