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| Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, created this drawing, titled "Caricature of a Man Wearing a Large Hat," circa 1630-1640. It is one of the drawings on view in the new exhibit.
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Drawings by European ‘masters’ are featured in gallery exhibit
The Yale University Art Gallery will showcase important works from its collection
of European drawings in a new exhibition opening on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Titled “Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery,” the
exhibition features 87 works — many of them never before seen by the
general public — that illuminate European draftmanship from the 15th
to the 19th century. It will be on view through June 8.
It is the first time in over three decades that the Yale Art Gallery has shined
a spotlight on this particular collection; the last time was in 1970 when Egbert
Haverkamp-Begemann and Anne-Marie S. Logan published a complete catalogue of
the gallery’s collection of European drawings made before 1900.
Almost 40% of the drawings on view in this exhibition have been acquired since
1970, and 18 were acquired in just the past seven years. They include works
from across Europe, particularly France, Italy and the Netherlands. The show
features works by Giulio Romano, Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Claude
Lorrain, Jacob Jordaens, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jean-Antoine Watteau, François
Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Giovanni Domenico
Tiepolo and Edgar Degas, as well as many lesser-known artists.
“The gallery’s collection of European drawings offers an intimate
view across a broad range of artistic ideas and working methods,” says
Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery. “A
collection-based exhibition such as this one is exciting to assemble, for it
propels new research and scholarship, which in turn prompts a teaching museum
such as ours to further strengthen its holdings. We are delighted to be able
to share these works, seldom viewed beyond our very active print room, with the
public at large.”
“Master Drawings” presents examples of nearly every artistic movement
and drawing technique used by European artists from the Renaissance up to the
beginning of the modern era. These include not only finished sheets, but also
drawings from various stages of the creative process as well as those created
for a wide variety of purposes — such as studies for paintings, and works
used in the preparation of prints, stained glass, tapestries and embroideries.
A fully illustrated catalogue co-published by the gallery and Yale University
Press will accompany “Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery.” The
296-page book presents new scholarship, including the re-attribution of works
in the collection, and features over 100 large-scale color illustrations.
The exhibition and the publication were organized by Suzanne Boorsch, the Robert
L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, and John Marciari, the
Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art, both of the Yale
University Art Gallery. The exhibit is supported by the Florence B. Selden
Fund and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, with additional support provided by
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Dayton, B.A. 1940, and Dr. and Mrs. Edmund P. Pillsbury,
B.A. 1965. The exhibition has traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum
of Art in Sarasota, Florida, and university museums in Austin, Texas and Chicago.
Several special events have been scheduled in conjunction with “Master
Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery.” These include the Ryerson
Lecture, titled “Discovering and Acquiring Old Master Drawings: An Autobiographical
Account,” by Sir Timothy Clifford, former director general of the National
Galleries of Scotland, at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28; and gallery talks
at 12:20 p.m. on Feb. 13 and at 4 p.m. on April 8, 15 and 22. These events
are free and open to the public. For details, see the Calendar of Events in
this paper or online at http://events.yale.edu/opa.
In addition, Marciari will lead a Master Class on the exhibition on Thursdays,
Feb. 14 and 21 and March 6 at 5:30 p.m.; to register, call (203) 432-9525.
Boorsch will give a special talk for gallery members, titled “Collecting
with Special Exhibitions in Mind: ‘Master Drawings and Colorful Impressions,’” at
5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3; to register for that talk, call (203) 432–9658.
The Yale University Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St., is open to the
public free of charge 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (until 8 p.m. on Thursday
through June) and 1-6 p.m. on Sunday. The gallery is closed Mondays and major
holidays. For more information, or to explore its collections online, visit
http://artgallery.yale.edu.
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