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While some of the represented artists may not be familiar to most of the public, the exhibit offers viewers a broad introduction to the work of 17th century Dutch artists, and the various subjects they treat: landscapes, figure studies, architecture, Biblical subjects, quotidian scenes and natural history...
Having returned from a European tour with stops at the British Museum and the Institut Netherlands in Paris, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection is making its next stop at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum...
...It’s the best private collection of 17th century Dutch drawings anywhere in the world,” said Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings William W. Robinson, who curated the exhibition...
...Dutch art was a kind of vanguard art because of its interest in naturalistic representation and secular subjects,” Robinson said. “It was always considered a kind of art apart, just as the Dutch republic was a kind of novel form of government and regarded with disdain by aristocratic and monarchical regimes. So in that sense, Dutch art was a kind of revolutionary, innovative art in the 17th century...
...whom the exhibit and associated catalogue are dedicated—and George S. Abrams ’54, who is also a Crimson editor. Over the course of 40 years of collecting, the Boston couple assembled the world’s most comprehensive private collection of 17th century Dutch drawings...