Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
This exhibit, "Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection," includes a private collection of Dutch drawings assembled over five decades by George and Maida Abrams.
September 24, 2011 - January 8, 2012
In addition to ten works by Rembrandt there will also be fifty drawings by his pupils and followers, including sheets never before exhibited or published included in the exhibit.
This will be the first time that any works by Rembrandt have ever been exhibited at the Bruce Museum.
The exhibition reveals the expressive mastery and dazzling freedom of Rembrandt’s pen drawings and investigate the character and use of individual drawings, from figure studies made from life, to finished drawings composed in the studio, to landscape studies executed en plein air on his walks outside Amsterdam.
The show and its catalogue also investigate the functions of drawings in Rembrandt’s studio and their relationship to his teaching practices. Some drawings by Rembrandt’s students and followers seem to have been assignments, for example, in how best and most accurately to convey the narrative drama of a historical subject. Others clearly were life studies designed to train the eye and hand, preparatory to more finished works, be it another drawing, print or a painting. Some were topographic studies or the records of travel or novelties to be consulted in the future. But all achieve the expressive power that we associate with Rembrandt’s mastery. The exhibition is also be supplemented with one or two paintings by Rembrandt from private collections.
September 24, 2011 - January 8, 2012
In addition to ten works by Rembrandt there will also be fifty drawings by his pupils and followers, including sheets never before exhibited or published included in the exhibit.
This will be the first time that any works by Rembrandt have ever been exhibited at the Bruce Museum.
The exhibition reveals the expressive mastery and dazzling freedom of Rembrandt’s pen drawings and investigate the character and use of individual drawings, from figure studies made from life, to finished drawings composed in the studio, to landscape studies executed en plein air on his walks outside Amsterdam.
The show and its catalogue also investigate the functions of drawings in Rembrandt’s studio and their relationship to his teaching practices. Some drawings by Rembrandt’s students and followers seem to have been assignments, for example, in how best and most accurately to convey the narrative drama of a historical subject. Others clearly were life studies designed to train the eye and hand, preparatory to more finished works, be it another drawing, print or a painting. Some were topographic studies or the records of travel or novelties to be consulted in the future. But all achieve the expressive power that we associate with Rembrandt’s mastery. The exhibition is also be supplemented with one or two paintings by Rembrandt from private collections.
