A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum
JUN 12, 2010 – SEP 19, 2010
A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum presents 57 rarely seen works dating from the late 15th through the 19th centuries by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Fra Bartolommeo, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The exhibition showcases the variety and quality of the finest early collection of European drawings in the United States. The collection was acquired between 1869 and 1871 by forward-thinking railroad magnate Edwin Bryant Crocker, who was deeply concerned for the cultural life of the new state of California. It includes many keystones of the history of art, such as Albrecht Dürer's Female Nude with a Staff, drawn by the greatest German artist of the Renaissance in 1498 shortly after his return from Italy, and Vittore Carpaccio's Meeting of the Doge and Pope at Ancona, the only surviving compositional drawing for a lost canvas mural once in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. Along with such famous drawings, the exhibition also includes many works previously known only to scholars and visitors of monographic exhibitions.
A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum was organized by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif. Host curator: Annette Dixon, Ph.D., curator of prints and drawings.
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This exhibition is supported in part by Dr. Alton and Celia Wiebe, Friends of the Gilkey Center, Nan and Peter Koerner, The Acorn Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, and Marsha Livingstone. Exhibition Series Sponsors are The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, PLANAR, Fred Meyer Stores, The Collins Foundation, Mary C. Becker, PGE Foundation, US Trust/Bank of America Private Wealth Management, L.T. Murray Family Foundation, Pat and Trudy Ritz, Mary Clark, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer, Julie and Peter Stott, Mary and Pete Mark, Linda and Scott Andrews, Ray Hickey Foundation, The Standard, Portland Monthly, NW Natural, and Vibrant Table Catering & Events.
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