Drawn to greatness : master drawings from the Thaw collection

Drawn to greatness : master drawings from the Thaw collection / edited by Jennifer Tonkovich ; essays by Colin B. Bailey, Richard R. Brettell, Jay A. Clarke, Matthew Hargraves, Colta Ives, John Marciari, Andrew Robison, Jennifer Tonkovich, Jane Shoaf Turner, catalogue raisonné by Jennifer Tonkovoch, Giada Damen.

This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world?s 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Pierpont Morgan Library (Author)
Other Authors: Bailey, Colin B. (Contributor), Damen, Giada (Contributor), Tonkovich, Jennifer (Editor), Turner, Jane, 1956- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, [2017]
Subjects:
Thaw, Eugene Victor > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Thaw, Clare > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Pierpont Morgan Library > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Drawing > Exhibitions.
Drawing > Private collections > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Table of Contents:
  • "I can't create the objects I crave to look at, so I collect them": Eugene Thaw as a collector of master drawing / Jennifer Tonkovich
  • The renaissance and the rise of drawing / John Marciari
  • Looking at the world in the seventeenth century / Jane Shoaf Turner
  • Light and color in Eighteenth-century Venetian drawings / Andrew Robison
  • "Artists Drawing Everywhere": the Rococo and enlightenment in France / Colin B. Bailey
  • Revolutionary artists / Jennifer Tonkovich
  • Visionaries: British and German romantic drawings / Matthew Hargraves
  • From the quotidian to the sublime: drawing in France after the revolution / Colta Ives
  • Charting new territory: impressionist and post-impressionist drawing / Richard R. Brettell
  • Writing, drawing, and experimentation: Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock / Jay A. Clarke
  • Catalogue Raisonne / Jennifer Tonkovich and Giada Damen.

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