May 5, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
Free admission.
To register, please contact the Drawing Institute at drawinginstitute@themorgan.org.
Alastair Laing, Thaw Senior Fellow at the Drawing Institute and longtime curator of paintings for the National Trust in the United Kingdom, will deliver the inaugural Thaw Lecture. He investigates the audience for, and function of, the 10,000 drawings Rococo master François Boucher claimed to have produced.
Sponsored by the Drawing Institute, the annual Thaw Lecture explores questions related to the role of drawing in the creative process.
François Boucher (1703–1770), Young Girl with a Bird Cage. Gift of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh. 1980.41, The Morgan Library & Museum.