The Morgan in New York has an exceptional collection of drawings ranging from preparatory studies to finished works of art with nearly twelve thousand drawings from the fourteenth through to the twenty-first centuries. The primary focus of the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection is European drawings executed before 1825, but the Morgan also has the largest collection of Rembrandt etchings in the United States.
I have been lucky and immensely fortunate to draw at the Louvre Museum in Paris for a few years now. In doing so I have learnt some practical techniques and some aspects on how to use my time there productively. Read more
The Louvre is the book from which we learn to read. Paul Cezanne
The Louvre is the world’s most visited museum and one of the world’s largest. Read more
In the midst of the contemporary art scene in Chelsea, New York, Xanda McCagg has a wonderful studio and gallery space, the Xanda McCagg Project Gallery. In 2014, she invited me to show some of my drawings of figures that were created in Paris over the winter. Read more
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd-century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike. She is one of the most beautiful statues at the Louvre, and one of their most famous. Read more
I draw in museums, studying master works, sometimes over days, to try and absorb and learn what is being revealed to me. This traditional has a venerable history.