This volume describes and reproduces 283 works from the vast collection of italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum.

18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arts & Photography

Griswold, William M.

BEAN, Jacob

Drawing

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

Wolk-Simon, Linda

Masterworks from the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Liedtke, Mr. Walter

Yale University Press

(This title was originally published in 1990/91.)

Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The sixteenth century may be described as the great age of Italian drawing. It was then that Giorgio Vasari asserted the primacy of disegno, hailing it as the father of the arts and the supreme expression of the artist's intellect. Raphael, Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, and the Venetians Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese—all famous painters—were equally gifted as draftsmen, and their drawings have been eagerly sought and prized by collectors throughout the centuries.  The study and connoisseurship of old master drawings have long flourished in New York, where there are many splendid examples of cinquecento draftsmanship in public and private collections. This volume and the exhibition it accompanies celebrate the wealth of Italian sixteenth-century drawings in New York, especially those acquired over the last thirty years. The 124 works here catalogued belong to the Metropolitan Museum, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and more than twenty private collectors.  The schools of Emilia, Florence, Genoa, Lombardy, Rome, Siena, and Venice are all represented, and the particular resources of New York collections have allowed for an exceptionally rich presentation of certain artists, including the major members of Raphael's workshop, the Lombard disciples of Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio and Parmigianino from Parma, and the later Roman Mannerists. Many drawings are published here for the first time, while others appear with new attributions based on recent contributions to scholarship.  Each drawing is illustrated and is presented with a substantive discussion that places it in the context of the artist's career and explores the purpose for which it was made. [This book was originally published in 1994 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

History & Criticism

Pierre Matisse arrived in New York shortly before Christmas 1924 determined to make his mark. At that time, the New York art world was in its formative stages, entirely different from what it was to become by the close of the twentieth century. He was to play a significant role in its establishment. In 1925, the time of the first exhibition, which featured lithographs and drawings by his father, Henri Matisse, there were few galleries and no museums exhibiting contemporary art. In October 1931 the Pierre Matisse Gallery opened its doors in the Fuller Building on Fifty-seventh Street, just around the corner from the provisional headquarters of the recently instituted Museum of Modern Art. In addition to shows featuring works by such established artists as Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Derain, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, and, of course, the elder Matisse, numerous exhibitions at the Pierre Matisse Gallery were focused around the works of younger, less-known figures, including Joan Miro, Balthus, Alberto Giacometti, and Jean Dubuffet. Pierre Matisse not only played a major role in introducing American audiences to the works of Marc Chagall, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, Wifredo Lam, Reg Butler, Raymond Mason, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Francois Rouan, Zao Wou-ki, Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera, and Antonio Saura but also fostered their critical and popular appreciation. American artists whose work he championed included Alexander Calder, Theodor Roszak, Sam Francis, and Loren MacIver. By the time of his death in 1989, Pierre Matisse had been instrumental in the creation of a community that encompassed not only the leading artists of the twentieth century but also an impressive roster of distinguished collectors and institutions. The degree to which he enriched the artistic climate of his adopted country cannot be overestimated. This publication documents many of the outstanding works exhibited at the Pierre Matisse Gallery and - drawing upon the Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives, given to the Morgan Library in 1997 - chronicles, through correspondence, ephemera, and photographs, the history of one of the most significant venues of twentieth-century art.

Pierre Matisse and His Artists

Loudon, Margaret

Tonkovich, Jennifer

Carnielli, Alessandra

Pierpont Morgan Library

The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994

The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994

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