“Thaw Collection” at the Morgan Library

The Young Friends of FAI met at the Morgan Library for a private viewing of “Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection”. This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world’s finest private collections containing over 400 sheets. Works by major masters from the Renaissance to the modern era were on view, including Mantegna, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Piranesi, Watteau, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Turner, Daumier, Redon, Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock. We also were able to visit “Views of Rome and Naples: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection”. Views of Rome and Naples is the fifth exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare. In these oils, painters captured the grandiosity of Rome’s classical ruins and the sublime natural beauty of Naples, with its famous view of Mount Vesuvius.