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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2017>The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries

# The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries

March 12 – July 16, 2017West Building, Ground Floor, West Outer Tier Galleries 

Fra Bartolommeo, *One Angel Blowing a Trumpet, and Another Holding a Standard*, c. 1500, pen and brown ink, squared in red chalk for transfer on laid paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

 Some 100 drawings dating from the 14th to the 20th century are presented in an exhibition of masterworks donated by one of the great connoisseurs of the 20th century, Ian Woodner, and his daughters, Dian and Andrea. *The Woodner Collections* includes drawings executed by outstanding draftsmen such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and Pablo Picasso, among many others.

The exhibition is curated by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art.

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Zanobi Strozzi, Italian, 1412 – 1468, *Initial Q with a Procession of Children*, c. 1430s, tempera and gold leaf on parchment, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner, 2013

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 – 1528, *A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes,*1496/1497, watercolor and gouache heightened with pen and ink and gold, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, 2005

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Fra Bartolommeo, Italian, 1472 – 1517, *One Angel Blowing a Trumpet, and Another Holding a Standard,* c. 1500, pen and ink, squared in chalk for transfer, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian, 1500 –1571, *A Satyr,* 1544/1545, pen and ink with wash over chalk, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Patrons’ Permanent Fund, 1991

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 – 1569, *The Bagpipe Player,* c. 1562, pen and ink with some incised lines, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner, 2016

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch, 1585 – 1634, *Winter Games on the Frozen River IJssel*, c. 1626, pen and ink with watercolor, gouache, and graphite, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 –1669, *View of Houtewael near the Sint Anthoniespoort,* c. 1650, reed pen and ink with wash and touches of white, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, 1993

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 – 1806, *Avenue of Cypresses at Villa d’Este*, 1760/1765, pen and ink with wash over chalk counterproof, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner, 2013

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804, *Punchinellos Hunting Waterfowl,* c. 1800, pen and ink with wash over charcoal, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Francisco de Goya, Spanish, 1746 – 1828, *Mendigos que se llevan solos en Bordeaux (Beggars Who Get about on Their Own in Bordeaux)*, 1824/1827, chalk on greenish paper, National Gallery of Art, Woodner Collection, 1993

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Odilon Redon, French, 1840 – 1916, Cactus Man, 1881, various charcoals with stumping, wiping, erasing, incising, and sponge work, Woodner Collections, Promised gift of Andrea Woodner

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881 – 1973, *Two Fashionable Women*, 1900, charcoal, Woodner Collections, Dian Woodner. © 2017 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

**Organization:** Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington

**Attendance:** 85,525

Press Release

Exhibition Checklist

                  - Press Event: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries & East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    March 7, 2017, (28:19 minutes)                                

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