American Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert Lehman Collection

The five sketchbooks and twenty-two single drawings catalogued in this volume, many of them for the first time, are among the more than 2000 works of art collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, that since 1975 have been housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It includes paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early 19th-century artists. In addition to a group of early German drawings, this collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. It discusses all drawings, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing it with comparative illustrations of related works v. 1. Italian paintings / John Pope-Hennessy v. 2. Fifteenth-to eighteenth-century European paintings v. 4. Illuminations / Sandra Hindman ... [et al.] v. 6. Italian eighteenth-century drawings / James Byam Shaw, George Knox v. 7. Fifteenth-to eighteenth-century European drawings / Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann ... [et al.] v. 8. American drawings and watercolors / Carol Clark v. 9. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drawings / Richard R. Brettell ... [et al.] v. 10. Italian majolica / Jörg Rasmussen v. 11. Glass / Dwight P. Lanmon with David B. Whitehouse v. 14. European textiles / Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Contains five sketchbooks and 22 single drawings. The highlight of this catalog is the watercolors in Maurice Prendergast's "Large Boston public garden sketchbook", all reproduced here in full color. Also includes a book of 140 sketches never before published, that Prendergast made in the parks and on the boulevards of Paris in the 1890s