Sunday, October 27, 2019

Drawings and prints - an exhibition in Brooklyn

Two weeks ago today, I saw the Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper exhibition (June 21–October 13, 2019) at the Brooklyn Museum.

Images of my photos of the exhibition
Today I've loaded my photos from the exhibition into an album on my Making A Mark Facebook Page - also called Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper  - for all those who love drawings and prints but were unable to see the exhibition.

The exhibition included fine art prints - using various methods by
  • Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
  • Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 -1669)
  • Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879)
  • Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
  • Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906)
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) 
  • Paul Signac (1863 - 1935)
  • Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864 - 1901)
  • Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947)
  • Edouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940)
  • Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Plus drawings in different media and watercolour sketches by
  • Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899)
  • Jean-Francois Millet (1814 - 1875)
  • Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906)
  • Berthe Morisot (1841 - 1895)
  • Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
  • Suzanne Valadon (1865 - 1938)
  • Kathe Kollwitz (1865 - 1945)
  • Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
  • Amadeo Modigliano (1884 - 1920)
I looked through their Collection categories but they don't have a category for drawing (1751 items) and/or print (3052 itemsand/or works on paper. More's the pity. However you do get to see rather a lot of unsorted works which fall within these categories - and it's worth taking a look.

They've also got lists of the titles and dates of past exhibition - but no digital archives of the works that were on show in these exhibitions.

I do hope that museums will soon realise that by showing digitised images after the event that will generate more visitors in the future!