Master Drawings from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum

January 20 – 28, 2017

Academy Mansion
2 East 63rd Street
(between Madison and 5th)

Please visit the Lyman Allyn in New York City as part of Master Drawings New York 2017, an annual art world event! From January 20 to 28, 2017, a select group of drawings from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection will be on view at the Academy Mansion at 2 East 63^rd street in Manhattan. Admission is free. The Lyman Allyn is the sole museum on site, complementing four commercial gallery exhibitions in the same building, twenty affiliated gallery exhibitions on the Upper East Side, and important drawing sales taking place at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and other auction houses.

Master Drawings from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum features just over a dozen drawings and watercolors from the 15^th century through the early 20^th century, including work by Federico Zuccaro, Abraham Bloemaert, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing. The exhibition is a collaborative effort made possible by the generous assistance of Christopher Bishop of Bishop Fine Art, Sarah Dove of Sarah Dove Fine Art Conservation, and Allison Wucher of Master Drawings. Particular thanks goes to the Master Drawings organization for their support, as well as to Sarah Dove and to Mara Beckwith of Studio M Framing for their generous donations to the project. We are pleased to share these works with a wider public. Because of their delicate and light-sensitive nature – not to mention the Lyman Allyn’s focus on American art – many of these drawings have not been displayed in recent years.

Gabriel Dreer (Austrian/German, 1580–1631)

St. Andrew, 1622, pen and ink with ink wash on paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum Friends' Fund Purchase (Eugen Bruschwiler), 1956.85.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851–1938)

Head of a Woman, ca. 1909, silverpoint on wood-pulp illustration board prepared with gesso. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Friend’s Fund Purchase (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York), 1947.5.

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

Study for the Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero, 1826, watercolor and graphite on wove paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1943.192.

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860)

Soldier, watercolor, gouache, and spot-varnish (or gum arabic) varnish on wove paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1943.191.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

Study for the Portrait of Mme. Moitessier, Standing, 1851, graphite with touches of white on wove paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum Purchase (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York), 1941.85

Johann Melchior Füssli (Swiss, 1677–1736)

Illustration for Physica Sacra, ca. 1731, pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash over traces of black chalk underdrawing with white gouache on laid paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift of Christian Nebehay, 1936.2.

Unknown (German, 15th century)

Mary Magdalene, black pen and ink on paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift by exchange (Colnaghi, London), 1934.14.

Attributed to Niccolò dell’Abbate (Italian, 1509/12–1571)

Alcina Receiving Roger, black and brown chalk and ink with white highlights over prepared ground on antique laid paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum Purchase (Colnaghi, London), 1931.11

Attributed to Louis Laguerre (French, 1663–1721)

Design for a Ceiling with Figures from Greek Mythology, iron gall ink and lead white paint on blue antique laid paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum Purchase (Peter Claas, England), 1969.18

Frank Brangwyn (English, 1867–1956)

Three Heads, red, white, and pink chalk over graphite grid (with pin pricks) on brown wove paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Friend’s Friends' Fund Purchase (Edward Trumbull), 1946.288.

Federico Zuccaro (Italian, 1542–1609)

Christ Healing the Blind Man, red and black chalk on antique laid paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum Purchase (Colnaghi, London), 1931.9.

Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578–1649)

Judgment of Paris, brown pen and ink and with ink wash on antique paper. Lyman Allyn Art Museum Purchase, Addie Avery Thomas Fund (Baroni, London), 1970.165