Free with museum admission. Reservations recommended. E-mail tickets@themorgan.org to reserve.
Lunchtime Lecture Series: Drawing in Depth
This series of lunchtime talks provides in-depth explorations of pivotal moments in the history of draftsmanship with noted specialists of master drawings focusing on works in the celebrated Thaw Collection. Additional talks in the series will continue in fall 2016.
Visionaries: Blake, Friedrich, and their Contemporaries
Matthew Hargraves
The Romantic movement celebrated the visionary impulse rather than the straightforward representation of the material world. Romantic artists across Europe such as William Blake and Caspar David Friedrich turned away from the simple imitation of nature towards their own inner visions in order to capture truths beyond the visible realm. Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of Art Collections and Head of Collections Information and Access, Yale Center for British Art, will explore the visionary capacity of Romantic artists through the extraordinary drawings in the Thaw collection.
This series is made possible by the Franklin Jasper Walls Lecture Fund.
William Blake (1757-1827), Christ Nailed to The Cross: The Third Hour, Thaw Collection.