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Title:	Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift
Date:	6/16/2023 - 10/22/2023
Address:	The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Location:	New York, NY
Hours:	Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday: 10:30 am - 5 pm, Friday: 10:30 am - 7 pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $22
Web Page:	https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/into-the-woods
Contact Info:	(212) 685-0008

Details:

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates the gift of more than 130 drawings and photographs from the collection of Karen B. Cohen with the exhibition Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift. Combining objects from Cohen’s generous gift with related examples from the Morgan’s collection, this selection of over fifty works on paper by French nineteenth-century artists will explore new approaches to the rural landscape and its inhabitants and help define the role artists played in defining a modern relationship to nature. The development of portable equipment, the expansion of the railway system, and the technical innovation of photography all helped reshape artists’ relationship with nature in the nineteenth century. This exhibition asks how painters, draftsmen, and photographers approached the traditional subject of landscape and scenes of rural life in new ways. Steeped in the pictorial tradition of their predecessors, including the great seventeenth-century Dutch landscape artists Jacob van Ruisdael and Rembrandt, French artists reinvigorated the genre with their commitment to naturalism.