This exhibition showcases more than 20 intimately scaled sketches made in oil and executed in nature from the collection of Eugene V. and Clare Thaw. The show includes oil sketches from late-18th-century pioneers Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, Simon Denis, and Francois-Marius Granet and from 19th-century practitioners Jean-Baptiste-Camile Corot and John Constable.
This exhibition will be on view at The Morgan Library & Museum, in New York City, January 23 through August 30. For more information visit www.themorgan.org.
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Cloud Study
by Jean-Michel Cels, ca. 1838–1842, oil on brown paper, mounted on card, 10 5⁄16 x 14 3/8. The Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |
Landscape With Tree Root
by Antoine-Xavier-Gabriel de Gazeau, 1833, oil on paper, laid down on cardboard, 10 1/4 x 14 3/4. The Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |
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Group of Trees
by Gilles-François-Joseph Closson, oil on paper, mounted to canvas, 14 3/4 x 19 1/8. The Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |
Sky Study
by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, oil on paper, 4 x 8 1/4. The Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |