This summer, in tandem with the Clark Center exhibition An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, get a first look at the thirty-nine drawings included in the Aso O. Tavitian gift of art. The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper houses the Clark's collection of more than 6,800 prints, drawings, and photographs. On three successive Wednesdays in August (August 12, 19, and 26), Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, will present special previews of the drawings from the Aso O. Tavitian gift.
The final Tavitian drawings preview features nineteenth-century drawings demonstrating the wide-ranging collecting taste of Aso O. Tavitian. Representations of women by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873) and Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842–1931) are joined by a group of eight drawings made by Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) on a trip to Caracas, Venezuela, aged just twenty-four.
Capacity is limited—space is first-come, first-served.
Image: Camille Pissarro, Two Figures Playing Guitars, San José (recto); Various Studies (verso) (detail), 1854, black lead and watercolor. The Clark, Gift of Aso O. Tavitian Foundation, 2025.1.328
This summer, in tandem with the Clark Center exhibition An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, get a first look at the thirty-nine drawings included in the Aso O. Tavitian gift of art. The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper houses the Clark's collection of more than 6,800 prints, drawings, and photographs. On three successive Wednesdays in August (August 12, 19, and 26), Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, will present special previews of the drawings from the Aso O. Tavitian gift.
The final Tavitian drawings preview features nineteenth-century drawings demonstrating the wide-ranging collecting taste of Aso O. Tavitian. Representations of women by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873) and Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842–1931) are joined by a group of eight drawings made by Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) on a trip to Caracas, Venezuela, aged just twenty-four.
Capacity is limited—space is first-come, first-served.
Image: Camille Pissarro, Two Figures Playing Guitars, San José (recto); Various Studies (verso) (detail), 1854, black lead and watercolor. The Clark, Gift of Aso O. Tavitian Foundation, 2025.1.328
