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The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries

March 12 – July 16, 2017
West Building, Ground Floor, West Outer Tier Galleries

Fra Bartolommeo, One Angel Blowing a Trumpet, and Another Holding a Standard, c. 1500, pen and brown ink, squared in red chalk for transfer on laid paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Some 100 drawings dating from the 14th to the 20th century are presented in an exhibition of masterworks donated by one of the great connoisseurs of the 20th century, Ian Woodner, and his daughters, Dian and Andrea. The Woodner Collections includes drawings executed by outstanding draftsmen such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and Pablo Picasso, among many others.

The exhibition is curated by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art.

Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Attendance: 85,525