Past Exhibition
Italian Drawings 1780-1890
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1825/1835, pen and brown ink with watercolor and brown-gray wash over black chalk, with touches of red chalk in Salom's lips and by her mouth, on laid paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2010.93.22
Details
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1825/1835, pen and brown ink with watercolor and brown-gray wash over black chalk, with touches of red chalk in Salom's lips and by her mouth, on laid paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2010.93.22
Overview: 102 drawings, a survey of 19th-century work in Italy, came from collections in Rome, Florence, and Milan, as well as from public and private owners in the United States.
Organization: This traveling exhibition was organized by Roberta J.M. Olson of Wheaton College for the American Federation of Arts.
Sponsor: The exhibition was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Attendance: 27,439
Catalog: Italian Drawings 1780-1890, by Roberta J.M. Olson. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1980.
Other Venues:
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 07/11/1980–09/07/1980
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 11/08/1980–01/04/1981
