Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings From The Wadsworth Atheneum

This handsome catalogue shines a spotlight on the Wadsworth Atheneum’s impressive collection of European drawings, watercolors and pastels. It features
renowned artists, including Courbet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Schiele, Klee, Miró and
Picasso, and includes fresh scholarship.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s rich collection of European drawings,
watercolors and pastels is little-known and rarely seen. Since the mid-nineteenth
century, the museum has acquired by purchase and gift a diverse group of
nearly 1,250 European drawings of impressive quality. Paper, Color, Line: European Master
Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum showcases some sixty highlights on view for the
first time in decades.

The catalogue of the exhibition will be the first catalog devoted to European drawings at the Wadsworth Atheneum. It will present fresh research on the objects as well as on the history of collecting European drawings at the museum. The catalogue is written by Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum.