Past Exhibitions: 1998
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Figurative Invention: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
December 22, 1998 to January 3, 1999
This exhibition presented drawings from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries that displayed several modes of depicting figures. Some were drawings of figures or costumes copied from life and intended as preparatory studies for painted compositions. Others were individual or grouped figures that spring from the artist's imagination or are based on his observation of the world around him.
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Victorian Fairy Painting
October 14, 1998 to January 17, 1999
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Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Summer from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
August 4, 1998 to October 4, 1998
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Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe
June 23, 1998 to September 6, 1998
The age of Goethe, Beethoven, and Kant was also a brilliant period for the visual arts in Germany. This exhibition — culled from the holdings of the Winterstein family of Munich, the world's most comprehensive and important private collection of German drawings and watercolors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries — afforded viewers an opportunity to study fine works by forty-nine artists from the greatest period of German drawing.
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Robert Adam — The Creative Mind: From the Sketch to the Finished Drawing
December 16, 1997 to April 5, 1998
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From the Louvre to The Frick Collection: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds
October 25, 1997 to January 25, 1998
