Drawings discoveries at the New York Historical Society

So much still to be found right on the shelves and storerooms of our libraries and museums:

The first scholarly survey of the drawings collection of the New York Historical Society has brought to light previously unknown or misattributed works by John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany, David Wilkie and others. The 8,500 works, most of which are by American artists, constitute the earliest assembled public drawing collection in the United States, begun in 1816, but they had never been systematically studied until curator Roberta Olson began the task five years ago. Nearly 200 highlights of her study, which was funded in part with a $175,000 grant from the Getty Foundation, are now on view in the exhibition "Drawn by New York" (until 7 January) and documented in a catalogue.

From The Art Newspaper. More on the exhibition at the New York Historical Society's website, which notes that "the exhibition will travel to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York from August 14, 2009 through November 1, 2009, and the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, from November 20, 2009 through February 7, 2010".

Posted by David on November 25, 2008 8:45 AM