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Making Their Mark: Drawings by Academic Artists in the 19th Century

How best to know an artist? Most would agree through his or her drawings. Drawing played a particularly important role in the 19th century, especially in the development of those artists who trained in the academies and ateliers of the great academic masters, but almost all artists began learning their skills with intensive drawing and continued the practice throughout their careers.

The talk will offer an overview of 19th-century drawings — their form, material and method — through examples in the museum’s collection in the exhibition, The Essential Line, at the Bellarmine Museum, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. The Dahesh Museum of Art’s collection includes an excellent body of drawings that encompasses the diverse methods, techniques, and purposes of academic work in the 19th century, from student efforts and further representations of the human figure, to compositional studies in diverse techniques for finished works of art, as well as drawings intended to be completed artworks.

J. David Farmer, PhD, is an art historian who has been a museum director for over 30 years. He served as the founding director for 9 years when the Dahesh Museum of Art Museum opened in 1995. He has curated numerous exhibitions from the Museum’s collection, and now oversees loans from the collection and the traveling exhibition program.











When: Thu., Dec. 6, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Where: Dahesh Museum of Art
145 Sixth Ave.
212-759-0606
Price: Free
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How best to know an artist? Most would agree through his or her drawings. Drawing played a particularly important role in the 19th century, especially in the development of those artists who trained in the academies and ateliers of the great academic masters, but almost all artists began learning their skills with intensive drawing and continued the practice throughout their careers.

The talk will offer an overview of 19th-century drawings — their form, material and method — through examples in the museum’s collection in the exhibition, The Essential Line, at the Bellarmine Museum, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. The Dahesh Museum of Art’s collection includes an excellent body of drawings that encompasses the diverse methods, techniques, and purposes of academic work in the 19th century, from student efforts and further representations of the human figure, to compositional studies in diverse techniques for finished works of art, as well as drawings intended to be completed artworks.

J. David Farmer, PhD, is an art historian who has been a museum director for over 30 years. He served as the founding director for 9 years when the Dahesh Museum of Art Museum opened in 1995. He has curated numerous exhibitions from the Museum’s collection, and now oversees loans from the collection and the traveling exhibition program.

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