“Prints and drawings have consistently served as popular media for humor in art. Prints, which can be widely replicated and distributed, are ideal for institutional mockery and social criticism, while drawings, unmediated and private, allow for free rein of the imagination. Sense of Humor will… Read More
All posts tagged “Rembrandt van Rijn”
Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection at The Morgan Library & Museum, through January 7, 2018
“The Thaw Collection is considered among the foremost private collections of drawings assembled over the last half century. It was first promised to the Morgan in 1975 by Eugene V. Thaw, now a Life Trustee, and the museum received the full collection of 424 works… Read More
Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece at The Morgan Library & Museum, June 3 – September 18, 2016
“Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver is an extraordinary painting that shows Rembrandt at an early age tackling one of the most powerful episodes in the Bible,” said Colin B. Bailey, director of the Morgan Library & Museum. “ He, like many of his contemporaries, aspired… Read More
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