This exhibition celebrates a major gift to be known as the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, which comprises 240 drawings promised or already given to the museum by Dorothy Braude Edinburg. Drawings in Dialogue highlights 166 of the works, including important examples by Renaissance and Baroque masters, fine drawings by 18th- and early 19th-century European and American artists, a stellar display of 19th-century French works, and a superb representation of early 20th-century art.
As a collector, Dorothy Edinburg is interested above all in acquiring drawings that represent the essence of an artist’s achievement—powerful images that are significant, independent statements. Focusing on a work’s primacy within an artist’s career as well as on its authenticity and condition, Edinburg has amassed a collection of stunning breadth and quality. Her holdings have improved our understanding not only of the oeuvres of individual artists—their thought processes, working methods, and development—but also of relationships among contemporaries. Moreover, each drawing resonates meaningfully with other works in the Art Institute’s collection.
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