"A Passion for Drawings" Exhibition
The Frick Collection
This event has ended.
In late 2010 a generous bequest of ten drawings was made to the Frick by the estate of its former Director Charles Ryskamp. During his tenure at the museum, Ryskamp — an avid collector of works on paper and a champion of connoisseurship — strongly promoted drawings exhibitions and establishing additional room for their display in the Cabinet gellery. Appropriately, that will be the setting for the spring 2012 presentation of the ten works from the Charles Ryskamp bequest, their first showing at the institution.
The drawings were chosen out of Ryskamp's extensive collection by Director Anne L. Poulet, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey, and Senior Curator Susan Galassi. Three of them, by artists also acquired by Henry Clay Frick, complement oil paintings in the museum's collection — a landscape in pencil by Pierre-Étienne Rousseau, an early academic nude by Edgar Degas, and a pen-and-ink character study by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Seven others — including Pierre-Joseph Redouté's 1802 watercolor of plums and an undated gouache and watercolor of otter hounds by the Victorian master Sir Edwin Landseer — were selected for their quality and art historical significance, testifying to Charles Ryskamp's particular interest in French and British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The other artists represented in the bequest are Eugène Delacroix, George Stubbs, Henry Fuseli, William Blake, and Sir David Wilkie.
[Image: Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) "Plum Branches Intertwined" (1802–4) watercolor on vellum 12 1/2 x 10 1/3 in.]
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Schedule
from February 14, 2012 to April 08, 2012