Calendar

Monday, October 2, 2023, 9–10:30 a.m. (Morgan Stanley East) Study Day: Into the Woods (by invitation)

Thursday, October 12, 2023, 10:00 a.m.– 3:30 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: 19th Century French Drawings (by application)

Monday, December 4, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: Drawings by the Tiepolo (by application)

Thursday, January 25, 2024, 9–10:30 a.m. (Morgan Stanley West) Study Day: Tiepolo (by invitation)

Thursday, January 25, 2024, 1:00 p.m.–5 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries
Public Program, organized by the Drawing Institute

Friday, April 19, 2024, 10:00 a.m.– 4 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: Drawing in Eighteenth-Century London: Academies and Entrepreneurs (by application)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 4:00 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Fellows Colloquium: Jasmine Clark and Rachel Kase (by invitation)

Monday, June 10, 2024, 9–10:30 a.m. (Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery)
Study Day: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift (by invitation)

Friday, December 9, 2022, 10:00 a.m.–1 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: Forgeries: Drawings to Deceive (by application)

Monday, April 3, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: Claude Gillot and Drawing in Paris ca. 1700 (by application)

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 9–10:30 a.m. (Morgan Stanley West)
Study Day: Gillot (by invitation)

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 1:00 p.m.–5 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World, 1690-1720
Public Program, organized by the Drawing Institute

Friday, June 2, 2023, 9–10:30 a.m. (Morgan Stanley West)
Study Day: Piranesi (by invitation)

Friday, June 2, 2023, 1:00 p.m.–5 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Piranesi Drawings: New Perspectives
Public Program, organized by the Drawing Institute

Friday, June 9, 2023, 5 p.m.–7 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Seventh Annual Thaw Lecture, Light and Flow: Liliane Lijn's Crossing Map, Jennifer Mundy, Thaw Senior Fellow, (Public Program)

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 2 p.m –3 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: Surrealist Drawings at The Morgan, Jennifer Mundy, Thaw Senior Fellow
(by application)

Friday, October 22, 2021, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Stephanie Buck, The Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett: 300 Years of Keeping in the Present
(Public Program)

December 3, 2021, 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Graduate Seminar: Early Netherlandish Drawings: Selected Themes and Problems
(by application)

December 14, 2021, 12:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Symposium: In Her Garden: Women Artists and Patrons in the Natural Sciences, 1650–1800
Public program, organized by the Drawing Institute

January 20, 2022, 3 p.m.
Lecture: Louis Marchesano, Käthe Kollwitz: Art and Politics
Public program, organized by the Drawing Institute

April 22, 2022, 10:00 a.m.–3 p.m.
Graduate Seminar: The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(by application)

May 6, 2022, 1:00 p.m.–5 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Holbein
Public Program, organized by the Drawing Institute

October 23, 2020, 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Graduate Seminar: Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice: Selected Themes and Problems
(by application)

October 30, 2020 11 a.m.–1 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Symposium: Reflecting on Rembrandt (Public Program in collaboration with The Leiden Collection)

November 17, 2020, 5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m. (Virtual Event)
French Drawings in the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau and Fragonard: A Drawing Institute conversation between Alvin L. Clark and Jennifer Tonkovich, with Joachim Homann and Margaret Morgan Grasselli
(by invitation)

December 4, 2020, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Graduate Seminar: Methodological approaches to the study of drawings
(by application)

January 27, 2021, 10:00 a.m–12:30 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Study Day: Early French Drawings
(by invitation)

March 10, 2021, 12 p.m. (Virtual Event) Lecture: A conversation between American artist Jim Dine and Rachel Federman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings, exploring Dine's personal drawing practice and his relationship with the old master drawing tradition
(Public Program)

April 30, 2021, 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Graduate Seminar: Danish Drawings, Matthew Hargraves, Thaw Senior Fellow
(by application)

May 26, 2021, 5 p.m. (Virtual Event)
Sixth Annual Thaw Lecture: Matthew Hargraves, Thaw Senior Fellow, Dreaming Big: Sleep and the Practice of Drawing
(Public Program)

September 12, 2019, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Meredith Gamer, Hogarth: Cruelty and Crime (Public Program)

September 16, 2019, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Thaw Gallery)
Study Day: Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor (by invitation)

October 4, 2019, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Richard Ormond, Sargent’s Portrait Drawings in Charcoal (Public Program)

October 18, 2019, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Christopher Wood, German Drawings (by application)

November 5, 2019, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: David Stone, Guercino: Drawing at the Speed of Thought (Public Program)

December 11, 2019, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: David Cannadine, British Aristocrats and American Plutocrats in the Age of Sargent (Public Program)

January 27, 2020, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Thaw Gallery)
Study Day: Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman (by invitation)

January 31, 2020, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Basile Baudez (Public Program)

February 24, 2020, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Morgan Stanley West)
Study Day: Al Taylor (by invitation)

April 20, 2020, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Morgan Stanley East)
Study Day: Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (by invitation)

April 29, 2020, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Meredith Martin (Public Program)

May 1, 2020, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey (by application)

May 7, 2020, 6 p.m–8 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: John Elderfield (by invitation)

May 27, 2020, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Masterclass: Marie-Anne Dupuy Vachey (by invitation)

June 17, 2020, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Sixth Annual Thaw Lecture: Marie-Anne Dupuy Vachey (Public Program)

October 12, 2018, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: John Marciari, An Impetuous Genius: Drawings by Jacopo Tintoretto (Public program)

October 15, 2018, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Engelhard Gallery and Drawing Study Center)
Study Day: Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice (by invitation)

October 24, 2018, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Davide Gasparotto, Pontormo from Drawing to Painting (Public program)

November 1, 2018, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Drawings in Tintoretto’s Venice: An International Symposium (Public program)

December 7, 2018, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Roger Wieck and Jennifer Tonkovich, The Renaissance in France (by application)

February 5, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: George Shackelford, Degas Drawings (by invitation)

February 15, 2019, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Rhoda Eitel-Porter, Early Italian Drawings (Public Program)

February 25, 2019, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Morgan Stanley Gallery East)
Study Day: Invention and Design: Early Italian Drawings from the Morgan (by invitation)

March 15, 2019, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Matthew Hargraves, Watercolor (by application)

April 2, 2019, 12 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lunchtime Lecture: Tobias Nickel, Domenico Campagnola and the Rise of Landscape Drawing in Northern Italy (Public Program)

April 15, 2019, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (McKim Building and Morgan Stanley Gallery East)
Study Day: Italian Renaissance Sculpture at the Morgan (by invitation)

May 3, 2019, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Carel van Tuyll, Baroque Drawing in Italy (by application)

May 15, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: Carel van Tuyll (by invitation)

June 11, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Fifth Annual Thaw Lecture: Carel van Tuyll, A Tale of Two Brothers: Drawings by Agostino and Annibale Carracci from their Roman Years (Public Program)

June 17, 2019, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Thaw Gallery)
Study Day: Hogarth (by invitation)

June 18, 2019, 12 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lunchtime Lecture: Laurel Peterson, Crafting Cruelty: Hogarth’s Innovative Drawing Methods (Public Program)

September 11, 2017, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Engelhard Gallery & Education Center)
Study Day: Poussin, Claude, and French Drawing in the Classical Age (by invitation)

September 14, 2017, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: David Stone on Guercino (by invitation)

October 25, 2017, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Noel Annesley, Honorary Chairman, Christie's Fine Art, London
Collecting Drawings in the Twentieth Century: An Insider's Diary (Public Program)

October 30, 2017, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (Morgan Stanley Galleries)
Study Day: Drawn to Greatness (by invitation)

November 3, 2017, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Modern Drawings (by application)

January 22, 2018, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (Thaw Gallery & Education Center)
Study Day: Power & Grace (by invitation)

April 25, 2018, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (Thaw Conservation Center)
Graduate Seminar: Imaging Techniques and the Technical Study of Drawings (by application)

April 25, 2018, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Imaging Techniques and the Technical Study of Drawings (Public Program)

May 4, 2018, 10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Nicholas Penny, Invention and Observation in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Drawings (by application)

May 9, 2018, 10:30 am–4 pm (Drawing Study Center)
Study Day: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (by invitation)

May 14, 2018, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (Thaw Gallery & Drawing Study Center)
Study Day: Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing (by invitation)

May 16, 2018, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lunchtime Lecture: Gainsborough Experiments: Cork, Broccoli, Milk, and Drawing the Landscape

May 29, 2018, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: Nicholas Penny (by invitation)

June 12, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Fourth Annual Thaw Lecture: Nicholas Penny, The Zoomorphic Mask (Public Program)

September 13, 2016, 1:00 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Jennifer Tonkovich, Revolutionary Artists: Goya, Géricault, Ingres, and Delacroix

October 14, 2016, 10 a.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: John Marciari, Jennifer Tonkovich, and Ilona van Tuinen, curators, Drawings and Prints, the Morgan Library & Museum, and Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Paper Conservation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Learning to Draw (by application)

October 17, 2016, 10 a.m. (Morgan Stanley Gallery West)
Study Day: The Drawings of Jean Dubuffet (by invitation)

December 6, 2016, 1:00 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: John Marciari, The Renaissance and the Rise of Drawing

January 20, 2017, 9:30 a.m.–2 p.m. (Education Center)
Study Day: Northern European Drawings Before 1600 (by invitation)

February 6, 2017, 10 a.m. (Morgan Stanley East)
Study Day: The Collections of Carl Gustaf Tessin (by invitation)

April 21, 2017, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: William Robinson, The Drawings of Rembrandt and his School (by application)

April 28, 2017, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator of Drawings and Prints, and Karl Buchberg, Senior Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, Materials and Meaning in French Avant-Garde Drawings of the Late Nineteenth Century (by application)

May 9, 2017, 4 p.m.–7 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Minding the Time: New Dialogues with Old Master Drawings
Organized with The Drawing Center

May 17, 2017, 6 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: William Robinson, A Closer Look at Rembrandt at the Morgan (by invitation)

June 20, 2017, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Third Annual Thaw Senior Lecture: William Robinson, Consultative Curator of Drawings, Harvard Art Museums

October 22, 2015, 6:00 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: Rick Brettell, Avant-garde Drawings, 1860–1890 (by invitation)

November 12, 2015, 10 a.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings (by application)

December 9, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Mark Hallett, The Nomadic Eye: Travelling Through Thomas Gainsborough’s Landscapes

January 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m. (Thaw Gallery and Drawing Study Center)
Study Day: The Art of Collecting Drawings (by invitation)

February 19, 2016, 10:00 a.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: William Barcham, The Drawings of Tiepolo, Piazzetta, and Their Contemporaries (by application)

March 4–5, 2016, 3:00 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: A Demand for Drawings: Five Centuries of Collecting, organized with the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection 

April 27, 2016, 6 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: Colin B. Bailey, A Closer Look at Watteau at the Morgan (by invitation)

May 25, 2016, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
The Second Annual Thaw Lecture: William Barcham, Tiepolo's Chariot of the Sun in the Palazzo Clerici, Milan: Drawings and Pictorial Intervention

June 6, 2016, 10:00 a.m. (Morgan Stanley Gallery East)
Study Day: Rembrandt's First Masterpiece (by invitation)

September 17, 2014, 12:00 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Amy Kurlander, Theodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon

September 30, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: John Marciari, Baroque Drawings at the Morgan (by invitation)

October 23, 2014, 4:00 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Fellows Colloquia: Aimee Ng (by invitation)

November 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Study Day: Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy (by invitation)
The study day is organized in collaboration with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

December 18, 2014, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Lecture: Barbara Rose, Medieval Illumination as a Model for Modernism

January 21, 2015, 9:30 a.m. (Goldsmith Education Center)
Study Day: Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan (by invitation)

February 10, 2015, 6 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: Alastair Laing, François Boucher and his Contemporaries (by invitation)

February 24, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Public Lecture: Ed Krčma, To Hell with the Media: On Robert Rauschenberg's XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno
From the lecture series Modern and Contemporary Drawings: New Perspectives

March 6, 2015, 10:00 a.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Graduate Seminar: Alastair Laing, Boucher Drawings at the Morgan (by application)

March 12, 2015, 4:00 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Fellows Colloquia: Klazina Botke (by invitation)

March 31, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Public Lecture: Brigid Doherty, Nietzche's Moustache. Or, The Imagination of Mechanical Reproduction in Rosemarie Trockel's Drawings
From the lecture series Modern and Contemporary Drawings: New Perspectives

April 9, 2015, 6 p.m. (Drawing Study Center)
Master Class: Andrew Robison, Piranesi Drawings at the Morgan (by invitation)
 
April 24, 2015, 10:00 a.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Symposium: Drawing and Invention
Speakers: David Ekserdjian, Professor of Art and Film History, University of Leicester; Aimee Ng, Associate Curator, The Frick Collection, New York; Mary Vaccaro, Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Arlington; Joachim Jacoby, Independent Scholar (Author of Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer: Kritischer Katalog); Stijn Alsteens, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

April 29, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
Public Lecture: Briony Fer, Abstraction and the Frame of Drawing
From the lecture series Modern and Contemporary Drawings: New Perspectives

May 5, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall)
The First Annual Thaw Lecture: Alastair Laing,  Boucher’s Drawings: Who, and What, Were They For?