The Harvard Art Museums announced Saturday they will receive a major gift of 16th to 18th century Dutch and Flemish drawings.
The donation — 330 drawings by over 125 artists — will come from the collection of Harvard alumni George S. Abrams and his late wife Maida, who have contributed to the museums over several decades.
The newest Abrams gift includes work by artists such as Rembrandt, Jacques de Gheyn II, Hendrick Goltzius, and Adriaen van Ostade, including "a range of drawings by lesser-known masters who worked in a wide range of subjects and media," according to the museum's press release. The museums celebrated the "truly transformative" gift, and said the collection of work "reveals the critical role of drawing in the art world of the Dutch Golden Age."
The announcement was made Friday, a day before the museums hosted a symposium to bring together experts from all over the world on 17th-century Dutch drawings in honor of Abrams. It coincides with the current exhibition, The Art of Drawing in the Early Dutch Golden Age, 1590–1630: Selected Works from the Abrams Collection, on display from
In October, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts received a similar gift from local collectors and nearly doubled its collection of 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings.
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