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Gallery exhibition

Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum

European Master Drawings from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century on loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.
European Master Drawings from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century
NICHOLAS HALL
17 East 76th Street, New York
9 – 18 May 2024

Nicholas Hall is delighted to present European Master Drawings from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century—an exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art at the gallery’s space on 17 East 76th Street in New York. On view between 9-18 May 2024, the intimate presentation includes a varied and rarely seen selection of old and modern master drawings by artists ranging from Giuseppe Cesari and Gustave Courbet to George Grosz and Joan Miró. It is a preview of the first exhibition devoted to European works on paper at the Wadsworth Atheneum in 35 years, due to take place in Hartford, Connecticut between 16 January–27 April 2025.

Since 1844, the institution has acquired a diverse group of nearly 1,250 European sheets of impressive quality from the Renaissance onward. The collection has particularly strong examples from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Max Ernst; additionally celebrated are its theatrical designs, notably those linked with the Ballets Russes. The first catalogue devoted to European drawings at the Wadsworth Atheneum will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. This fully illustrated book will present fresh research on each object as well as on the history of collecting drawings at the museum. It will be written by Dr. Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, and published by Paul Holberton Publishing, London.

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Installation view of the exhibition at Nicholas Hall, New York featuring drawings on loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
Gustave Courbet, Self-portrait, ca. 1849, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 1950.605
Joan Miró, Acrobatic Dancers, 1940, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 1958.263
George Grosz, The Fire, 1933, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 1948.481
Carlo Maratti, Academy of Drawing, ca. 1682, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 1967.309A
Otto Dix, Ein Café, 1925, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 1954.192
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