The Morgan Library Presents: “Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection”

Thu, Sep 28 - Sun, Jan 7  2018

The Morgan Library & Museum presents “Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection” featuring fifteen Dutch drawings by Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Saenredam. 

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 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, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock.

Saint-Rémy, Workers in the Field. Verso: Man digging and other figure studies

 

 

Seated Youth in a Hat, with His Chin Cupped in His Left Hand

 

 

The Battle of Scheveningen-Ter Heyde, 10 August: The Meeting of the Squadrons of Admiral Tromp and Vice-Admiral Witte de With

 

 

Jacob de Gheyn II

1565-1629

A Soldier Preparing to Load His Caliver

 

 

Jan Bruegel

1568-1625

A View of the Tiber in Rome with the Ponte Sisto and Saint Peter’s in the Distance