Past Exhibition

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections

This painting depicts a busy scene on a frozen river or lake, filled with a crowd of people. The horizon is in the center, showing boats and low buildings in the distance. Closer to us, many people are engaged in different activities on the ice. Some ride in a horse-drawn sled, while others play a game with long sticks and small round balls. The people wear colorful clothing in shades of red, blue, yellow, green, and black. Some of the women wear elaborate gowns with ruffled collars, while the men wear colorful suits and wide-brimmed hats. Other people wear simpler jackets and trousers. A few dogs run on the ice among the crowds. Aside from the colorful clothing, the color palette is mostly shades of cream, light gray, and pale blue.
Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Games on the Frozen River Ijssel, c. 1626, pen and black and gray ink with watercolor, gouache, and graphite on laid paper; laid down, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.3

Details

  • Dates

    -

  • Locations

    West Building, Ground Floor, Central Galleries
This painting depicts a busy scene on a frozen river or lake, filled with a crowd of people. The horizon is in the center, showing boats and low buildings in the distance. Closer to us, many people are engaged in different activities on the ice. Some ride in a horse-drawn sled, while others play a game with long sticks and small round balls. The people wear colorful clothing in shades of red, blue, yellow, green, and black. Some of the women wear elaborate gowns with ruffled collars, while the men wear colorful suits and wide-brimmed hats. Other people wear simpler jackets and trousers. A few dogs run on the ice among the crowds. Aside from the colorful clothing, the color palette is mostly shades of cream, light gray, and pale blue.
Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Games on the Frozen River Ijssel, c. 1626, pen and black and gray ink with watercolor, gouache, and graphite on laid paper; laid down, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.3

Overview: 111 drawings dating from the 14th to the 20th century were exhibited to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Woodner collections at the National Gallery of Art. The chronological presentation focused on old master drawings from the Renaissance and included works by Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, and Rembrandt van Rijn. An album page from Giorgio Vasari's own collection of Italian Renaissance drawings, Libro de' Disegni, Francisco de Goya's Mascaras crueles (Cruel Masks), and drawings by Pablo Picasso also were included. The Woodner Collections were formed by Ian Woodner and given to the National Gallery by Dian and Andrea Woodner beginning in 1991.

5 midday concerts featuring music from the 15th through the 18th century were given in the West Building Lecture Hall in honor of the exhibition.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings, was exhibition curator.

Attendance: 430,106

You may also like

A rooster woodcarving and a wooden rocking horse.

Exhibition:  Women and the Index of American Design

Exhibition:  Broken