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Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection

June 28 through September 22, 2024

The drawings assembled by Clement C. (Chips) Moore constitute one of the preeminent collections of Dutch drawings in private hands. The collection also includes works by Flemish, French, Italian, British, and American artists, spanning the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The works have long been intended to join the Morgan’s collection, and this exhibition—timed to coincide with the Morgan’s centennial celebration in 2024—makes formal the promised gift. The exhibition will demonstrate the breadth of the Moore Collection through a selection of around seventy-five works, grouped thematically to highlight the principal themes of Dutch art, the various functions and techniques of Dutch drawings, and the connections between the Dutch and other European artistic traditions. Works by Hendrick Goltzius, Jacob de Gheyn, Jan Brueghel, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Peter Lely, Claude Lorrain, Thomas Gainsborough, and John Constable are among those featured in the selection.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, authored by an international team of specialists, which reveals the Moore Collection’s significance in enriching and extending the Morgan’s famed holdings of Dutch drawings.

Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection is organized by John Marciari, Charles W. Engelhard Curator, Department Head of Drawings and Prints, and Curatorial Chair, with the assistance of Sarah W. Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator, Drawings and Prints.

Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection is supported by the Lucy Ricciardi Family Exhibition Fund and the Wolfgang Ratjen Stiftung, Liechtenstein. Additional support is provided by Diane A. Nixon, Karen B. Cohen, Robert Dance, Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard, and George S. Abrams, Esq. The exhibition is a program of the Morgan Drawing Institute.

Jan Siberechts (1627–1703), River Landscape with a View of Oxford in the Distance, ca. 1672-90. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and opaque watercolor over black chalk. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth W. Moore.

 

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Selected Images

Jan Siberechts (1627–1703)
River Landscape with a View of Oxford in the Distance, after 1672
Pen and brown ink, with watercolor and opaque watercolor, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Isaak Major (ca. 1576–after 1642)
Figures in a Wooded Landscape with a City in the Distance, ca. 1620–30
Brush and blue ink, over black chalk, squared in black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)
Callisto’s Pregnancy Revealed to Diana, ca. 1600
Black and white chalk, with traces of blue and pink chalks
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Abraham Bloemaert (1564–1651)
Head Studies, ca. 1591–1605
Red chalk, with pen and brown ink and opaque white watercolor
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634)
Fishermen on a Riverbank with the Town of Kampen in the Distance, ca. 1615–20
Brush and pen and brown and black ink, with watercolor and opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on paper prepared with a white lead ground
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668)
A Rider about to Mount a Piebald Horse, a Boy Holding the Bridle, ca. 1640–46
Black chalk, graphite, gray wash, and touches of pen and brown ink
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691)
Windmill by a River, with a Jetty in the Foreground, ca. 1640
Black chalk, with gray and yellow wash, over graphite
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Thomas Wijck (ca. 1616–1677)
View of the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo from the Corte Coppo, Venice, ca. 1645–50
Brush and gray wash, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore, through the Baymeath Art Trust.

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (1621/22–1683)
Shepherd Playing a Pipe and Shepherdess with Her Flock, 1655
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and brown wash, with incised outlines
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669)
Study of a Sick Woman for the “Hundred Guilder Print,” ca. 1645–48
Pen and brown ink
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Peter Lely (1618–1680)
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait, ca. 1660
Black, white, and red chalk on brown paper
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore, through the Baymeath Art Trust.

Lieven Cruyl (1634–1720)
The Construction of the Pont-Royal over the Seine, Paris, 1686
Pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of graphite
The Morgan Library & Museum, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Herman Henstenburgh (1667–1726)
Four Moths, Including a Green-banded Urania (Urania leilus), ca. 1686
Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Jacob Marrel (1613/14–1681)
Two Stems of a Red and White Tulip: “Colombijn en wit van Poelenburg,” ca. 1632–49
Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Wooded Landscape with Shepherds, Sheep, and Cottages, ca. 1760–63
Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on tan paper
The Morgan Library & Museum, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

John Constable (1776–1837), after Aert de Gelder (1645–1727)
Jacob’s Dream, ca. 1830
Pen and brown ink and wash
The Morgan Library & Museum, Promised gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore.

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