He also combined its structure and disposition with a nearly heraldic abstraction, which seems to impart to the individual plant the primeval character of its genus. The exhibition will travel to The Frick Collection, New York, New York, and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California. The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and greater Boston communities. Gallery talks are free with the price of admission to the Art Museums.
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The catalogue features 80 drawings and watercolors by 49 artists, including Henry Fuseli, Friedrich, Menzel, Runge, and Schinkel. Each work is reproduced in color and interpreted in its art historical context. Essays survey aspects of German drawing during the period, and trace the development of the collection formed by the Winterstein family in Munich. This volume is the most comprehensive publication on this subject available in English. German drawings from this period have not been comprehensively collected by the large public museums in the United States, and Harvard's holdings rank among the finest in this country.