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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...
...current exhibit represents only a part of the personal collection of the late Maida Abrams—who passed away last year, and to 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...
Another significant portion of the Abrams collection was organized as another exhibit in the art museums in 1992, entitled Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings, A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection. However, in the last decade alone, their collection has significantly grown, as 50 percent of the 113 drawings currently on display were acquired since the last exhibit...
Besides collecting, Maida Abrams’ had a passion for helping those with special needs experience and utilize...