"Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection" Exhibition
The Morgan Library & Museum
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Intimately scaled sketches made in oils and executed in nature are the subject of a new exhibition which presents more than twenty works drawn from the collection of Eugene V. and Clare Thaw, which chronicles the history of the genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
[Image: Jean-Michel Cels "Clouds Study" (ca.1838–42) oil on brown paper, mounted on card 262 x 365 mm. The Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum. Photography by Schecter Lee.]
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Schedule
from January 23, 2009 to August 30, 2009