Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to present Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art from September 18 – December 31, 2011. Organized by The Blanton, and comprising fifty-eight works drawn primarily from the museum’s Suida-Manning Collection, the exhibition explores the expressive and technical range of French drawing through preliminary sketches, compositional studies, figure studies, and finished drawings from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Among the artists included are Jacques Callot, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-Louis Forain, and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Annette Carlozzi, Blanton Deputy Director of Art and Programs, states, “This exhibition is the culmination of a long-term project to study one aspect of The Blanton’s collection, conducted in collaboration with colleagues across UT’s campus and the country. The fresh art historical research and technical analysis it yielded adds to our understanding of some of the major figures of the period, their working methods and techniques, and the production of art during these centuries of innovation and revolution.”