The Drawing Institute at The Morgan Library & Museum

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola; 1503–1540)
Studio Interior
Pen and brown ink on paper; framing lines in pen and black ink
5 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (141 x 125 mm)
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "parmesan".
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910; IV, 46

The Drawing Institute at The Morgan Library & Museum is devoted to the study of the history, collecting, function, interpretation, conservation, and theory of old master and modern drawing with the goal of stimulating new lines of investigation and discourse. The Drawing Institute supports research through annual fellowships; publications; small, focused exhibitions; and an ongoing series of symposia, seminars, and lectures. Cooperative programming and joint fellowships with the IMAF (International Music and Art Foundation) Centre at The Courtauld Gallery in London and with the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center in Houston are a further component of the Drawing Institute's program. Future plans call for the awarding of an annual prize for a groundbreaking exhibition or publication in the drawings field.

The Drawing Institute is supported by a generous gift from Eugene V. Thaw, a Life Trustee and long-time benefactor of the Morgan and noted drawings collector, and is overseen by Linda Wolk-Simon, Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints. Members of the advisory committee are Morgan Trustee and collector Karen B. Cohen; Elizabeth Cropper, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington; collector and museum patron Agnes Gund, Philippe de Montebello, former director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and now a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington; David Rosand, professor of Art History at Columbia University; Patricia Rubin, Director of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University; former Andrew W.Mellon Foundation Program Officer, Angelica Zander Rudenstine; Perrin Stein, Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, and Luke Syson, Curator-in-Charge, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mr. Thaw will serve as an honorary member of the advisory committee, and William M. Griswold, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, is an ex-officio member.

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The Drawing Institute is pleased to welcome the 2012–2013 class of fellows:

Nicholas Cullinan, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thaw Senior Fellow
Rewriting History: Cy Twombly's Discursive Drawings

Matthew Hargraves, Associate Curator for Collections Research; Head of Collections Information and Access, Yale Center for British Art
Lowell Libson Morgan-Courtauld Fellow
German and British Romanticism: Drawings from the Morgan and the Courtauld

Marta Paloma Cacho Casal, Independent Scholar, London
Senior Fellow
Drawings and the Intellectual Life of the Artist in Italy and Spain, ca. 1550–1650

Veronica Maria White, PhD, Columbia University
Junior Fellow
Guercino as a Collector of Drawings

John C. Hawley III, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Virginia
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Cornelis Visscher (ca. 1628/9–ca. 1659) as a Draughtsman and Canon Formation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Jordan Kauffman, PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Drawing on Architecture: The Socioaesthetics of Architectural Drawing, 1964–1990

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