Master Drawings NY

Experience art history’s first draft.
25+ exhibitions. 1000 years of art. 1 week.
February 1 – February 8, 2025

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Welcome to the new Master Drawings New York! ⁠
MDNY is excited to announce our 2024 dates: 27 January - 3 February, preview 26 January.⁠
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We'd like to invite you to visit our new website to learn more! [Link in bio] ⁠
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Image courtesy of @stephenongpin

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Save the date! MDNY is excited to announce the dates for our upcoming 2025 edition: ⁠
February 1 - 8, 2025 | Preview: January 31.⁠
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We are looking forward to welcoming you back to New York!⁠
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Memories from #MDNY2024!
Enjoy these snapshots of our participating galleries.

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📸: @charlesroussel

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Flashback to #MDNY2024!
Dive back into the captivating worlds of our participating galleries!

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Photography: @charlesroussel

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#MDNY2024
In case you missed it—here is a look back at some of our participating galleries!

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A BIG thank you to our Master Drawings 2024 Exhibitors! :

We are so grateful you were part of our event this year! From our first time participants to galleries who have been with us every year, congratulations exhibitors for a successful week!

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Yesterday, Samantha Friedman, Associate Curator, Museum of Modern Art, led a tour of the year-long installation at MoMa of Ellsworth Kelly's Sketchbooks, organized by the Drawing Foundation.

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Sprüth Mager's exhibition focuses on 2 bodies of Astrid Klein's work: "Photoworks" + canvases from her White Paintings series

Astrid Klein, Untitled (je ne parle pas, …), 1979. Photowork. © Astrid Klein. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers. Photo: Timo Ohler

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Suzanne Duchamp is widely known for her contributions to the Dada movement on both sides of the Atlantic.
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DUCHAMP Suzanne, Fabrique de joie (Joy Factory), 1920. Gouache, aquarelle, pencil and ink on paper.

Exhibitor:
Galerie 1900 – 2000

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‘Hand in hand…they were perfectly in time with another moved with the greatest vivacity and spirit: the air of antiquity had the most enchanting effect’
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George Romney, A Nymph dancing with a tambourine. Pencil and brown wash.

Exhibitor: Guy Peppiatt

On view during MDNY2024

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"I have invented a new way of imitating flowers," Mary Delany (English, 1700-1788) wrote to her niece in 1772.

From the Circle of Mary Granville Delany, Tropaeolum majus – Nasturtium, 18th century. On view @ MDNY.
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Exhibitor: Victoria Munroe Fine Art (@victoriamunroefineart)

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Walinska fell in love with the Shan paper handmade in the northeast province of Burma, which she used for a series of collages.

“I lived a full year in those four months,” Walinska said. “I painted for years under the influence of Burma.”
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Exhibitor: Graham Shay 1857

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Gustav Klimt, Stehender Frauenakt von vorne, Standing Female Nude from the front | Study for Beethoven Frieze - The Hostile Forces, 1901-02. black chalk on paper. Image Courtesy of TREZZA. On view during MDNY 2024!⁠
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Exhibitor: TREZZA

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#TheDrawingFoundation organized an intimate look at the sketches of Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900) at Cooper Hewitt

• Caitlin Condell (Associate Curator & Head, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design)

•Casey Monroe (Senior Research Cataloguer, Frederic Edwin Church)

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MDNY 2024 began with our first ever Inaugural Lecture, "Botticelli Drawings", by Furio Rinaldi, Ph.D., Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

This event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in association with #MDNY2024.

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Thank you to all who joined us for the 6th edition of Collector Conversations: Talking Drawings yesterday evening! ⁠
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This event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with The Society for the History of Collecting in association with MDNY 2024.

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Jan Theodoor Toorop, Portrait of Dora Luthy-Arbenz, 1909. Pencil, chalk and pastel on paper. Image Courtesy of Mireille Mosler (#MireilleMosler)

On view during MDNY2024.

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At The Winter Show, dealers and collectors engaged in a lively discussion about the market for drawings and distinct approaches to collecting.

Organized by The Drawing Foundation and The Winter Show in partnership with ArtTactic in association with MDNY2024.

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Théodore Géricault, Four harnessed horses seen from behind and a groom, c. 1820. Graphite on paper.

Image courtesy of Marty de Cambiaire (#MartyDeCambiaire)
On view during MDNY 2024.

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Evelyn de Morgan, Study of a Female Head for ‘The Captives’, c. 1914-15. Coloured chalk and pastel on buff paper. Image Courtesy of Patrick Bourne & Co. (@patrickbourneco)
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On view during MDNY 2024.

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Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), The Head of a Young Woman Looking Upwards, with a Partial Study of a Head Above, 1584. Black chalk. Image Courtesy of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (@stephenongpinfineart)

On view during MDNY 2024