Past Exhibition

Drawings of Landscape and Architecture from the Armand Hammer Collection

The image is a sketch depicting a rural scene. The point of view presents a path curving away from us and extending into the distance, flanked by fields. The horizon is marked by a line of trees. The sketch uses light pencil work with faint shading and outline. Close to us, a figure with an animal walks along the path. Sparse details on the left show fields, while to the right, a tree and fence posts create a boundary. The color palette is monochromatic, using natural tones and shadows of pencil on paper.
Camille Pissarro, Montmorency Road, c. 1850/1860, graphite on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.22

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    West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries
The image is a sketch depicting a rural scene. The point of view presents a path curving away from us and extending into the distance, flanked by fields. The horizon is marked by a line of trees. The sketch uses light pencil work with faint shading and outline. Close to us, a figure with an animal walks along the path. Sparse details on the left show fields, while to the right, a tree and fence posts create a boundary. The color palette is monochromatic, using natural tones and shadows of pencil on paper.
Camille Pissarro, Montmorency Road, c. 1850/1860, graphite on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.22

Overview: 20 landscape drawings were shown as part of a continuous series of changing exhibitions of the National Gallery's Armand Hammer collection.

Organization: Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery, coordinated the exhibition.

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