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The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

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Paul Klee Notebooks-Vol 1;The Thinking Eye

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Paul Klee Notebooks-Vol 1;The Thinking Eye

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Towards A Theory of Form Production

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Explore 866,767 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Our collections include some content that may be harmful or difficult to view. Learn more

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Explore hundreds of thousands of digital items from The New York Public Library.

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CLASS SCHEDULE

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Sol LeWitt on How to Be an Artist | Artsy

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Sol LeWitt, the bold conceptual and minimalist artist, advocated freedom and risk in his writings and communications with younger artists.

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Still life with skull and basket.

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The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

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For nearly a century, the Morgan Library & Museum has played a leading role in the field of master drawings. All the major European schools are represented in the collection, with particular strengths in Italian, French, British, Dutch, Flemish, and German masters. The collection also includes drawings by American artists as well as a growing number of modern and contemporary works on paper. The Morgan's collection is thus unusual in that it represents, in increasing depth, continuity as well as innovation throughout the entire history of drawing.

Drawings Online aims to provide the public and specialists with a digital library of over 10,000 images, representing works of art spanning the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. Included are approximately 2,000 images of versos of drawings that contain rarely seen sketches or inscriptions by the artist.

Due to copyright or other restrictions, some images of twentieth and twenty-first century drawings may be unavailable.

Drawings Online is generously underwritten by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, with additional funding from the David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation.

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For nearly a century the Morgan has played a leading role in the collecting, scholarship, and exhibition of master drawings.

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Images from Memory/Images from Perception

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Japanese prints - NYPL Digital Collections

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The Department's vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department's collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Because of their fragile nature and susceptibility to fading and discoloration, works on paper can only be exhibited for short periods at a time (approximately three months) under carefully controlled lighting conditions. In order to make the entire collection accessible to the public, works of art not installed in the galleries may be viewed by appointment in the Study Room for Drawings and Prints. In addition, an ever-growing portion of our holdings (currently over 177,000 works) can be explored on The Met's online database.

In 1880, the railroad and shipping tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt presented the Museum's Department of Paintings with 670 drawings by or attributed to European artists active before 1900. In the following years, the Department of Paintings began to acquire drawings by the likes of Michelangelo and Leonardo, while prints were acquired by the library. At the time, the trustees of the Museum agitated for the creation of a separate print department, but it was not until 1916 after the acquisition of more than thirty-five hundred mostly nineteenth-century etchings from the paper manufacturer Harris Brisbane Dick, who also gave a large fund for additional purchases, that William M. Ivins Jr. was hired to build a collection of works on paper that would rival those of other curatorial departments.

During the tenure of Ivins (1916-46) and his successor A. Hyatt Mayor (hired 1932, 1946-66 Curator of Prints), the Department of Prints amassed many hundreds of thousands of European, American, and Mexican prints as well as illustrated books, ornament and architectural drawings, and photographs for the Museum. Ivins and Mayor also worked closely with contemporary artists, bringing their work into the Museum for the first time. Under their leadership, the Department of Prints attracted remarkable gifts and bequests including prints by Albrecht Dürer from Junius Spencer Morgan; Gothic woodcuts and late Rembrandt etchings from Felix M. Warburg and his family; and prints by Rembrandt, Anthony Van Dyck, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt from the H.O. Havemeyer Collection.

Ivins asserted at the beginning of his tenure that "the print collection of a museum cannot be formed solely upon Yes and No answers to the question: Is it a work of art? Rather must it be, like the library of a professor of literature, composed of a corpus of prints in themselves distinctly works of art, filled out and illustrated by many prints which have only a technical historical importance." To that end, the collection Ivins and Mayor assembled includes the most exceptional examples, as well as popular prints, such as posters and trade cards, that were printed in large numbers, widely circulated, and never intended to last. They believed these more common ephemeral works served as storehouses of information about their time and place and belonged in the Museum. This type of collecting was unprecedented in museums in the United States but became critical to the Met's ability to present the comprehensive history of printmaking and draftsmanship in the Western world. Following in the founder's mission of collecting a broad range of works on paper, the collection continued to expand under the leadership of curators John McKendry (1966-75), Colta Ives (1975-93), and George Goldner (1993-2015).

Continue reading about our history here.

Explore the Collection

Discover highlights and browse more than 177,000 artworks in the online collection of drawings and prints.

This important collection of ephemera provides insight into the history of popular printmaking in the United States.

Special Features

How is a work of art on paper created? Learn more about the materials and techniques of drawings and prints in this online feature.

Standing 12 feet tall, the Arch is one of the largest prints ever produced. Discover the remarkable paper monument Dürer created for Emperor Maximilian I.

Explore the life and work of Jonathan King, one of the nineteenth century's most important producers of valentines.

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Study Room for Drawings and Prints

Most of the works on paper that are not on view may be examined by qualified visitors in the study room. Also available is a reference library of books on the history of prints and drawings.

Stay Connected

Get to know the people who care for the art.

Meet the fellows in the Department of Drawings and Prints.

Discover treasures from the more than one million works on paper in the department's holdings @metdrawingsandprints.

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The Department's vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day.

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1) Create your own padlet for this class; upload source images, drawings made in class and in your sketchbook.

2)Select 15 images from the NYPL Digital Collection or the Morgan Library Collection. Over the next 2 weeks draw from each image or a using any media.

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https://nyss.padlet.org/lourdesbernard/y917ndfhbgyb97di

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Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace (article) | Khan Academy

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Different view

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1)Make a synthetic drawing taking one element(color, shape, mood, object etc) from each source image. Use 18 x 24 surface or bigger.
2) COMPOSITION-Slide presentation w/ Mantegna, Grosz,Gorky,& Betye Saar

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"Summation" by Gorky

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Synthetic dwg1

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1.Continue working on the Synthetic Drawing inspired by the 15 images.
2.In your sketchbook doodle and explore alternative compositions for this work .

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Leland Bell, Roman Frescoes, Diego Rivera

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2/9 Drawing 2

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Dwg2-progress

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Review of recent synthetic images and drawings

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Marlene Dumas,Belkis Ayon, Francis Bacon,Cicely Brown

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1. Check out one of the three videos posted under video column.
2. Collect words and phrases which are meaningful to you.
3. Read from Klee "Towards a Theory of Form Production" sketchbook section "Concept of Artistic Creation" p65 and "Ways of Nature Study" p.111-p114.
4."A Drawing A Day" document your own life for a week using pencil, pen, or paintbrush, take some time each day to observe your settings with a sketch.

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Exotic ideas and exotic imagination.

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Changed composition

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04/27/2021 Final Class Review and Discussion

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04/27/2021 Final Class Review and Discussion

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Share sketches, synthetic drawings and inspiration with the class.

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Worked on this more

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Assignment week 2