The exhibition Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, celebrates the promised gift of works to the Morgan from one of the preeminent private collections of Dutch drawings in America. Yet, even as the exhibition was prepared and its catalogue written, the Moore collection continued to grow, and the selection here features recent acquisitions that are also promised gifts to the museum. These works reflect the same themes seen in Far and Away: for example, Dutch artists’ fascination with landscape—both at home and abroad—as well as the naturalistic impulse that led them to depict everyday life in genre scenes. While Dutch art forms the core of the Moore collection, it also includes works by Flemish, French, and Italian contemporaries who worked in a similar manner and by British artists who were influenced by their Netherlandish predecessors.
Jan Baptist Weenix (1621–1661), Italianate View of a River and Village, 1641–1643. Red chalk drawing. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth W. Moore.
