Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift

Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift combines objects gifted from Morgan Trustee Karen B. Cohen with related examples from the Morgan’s collection. This selection of over fifty works on paper by French nineteenth-century artists will explore new approaches to the rural landscape and help define the role artists played in defining a modern relationship to nature.

The development of portable equipment, the expansion of the railway system, and the technical innovation of photography all helped reshape artists’ relationship with nature in the nineteenth century. This exhibition asks how painters, draftsmen, and photographers approached the traditional subject of landscape and scenes of rural life in new ways. They discovered new effects through the use of a wide range of media, from charcoal to photography. A focus on rural laborers, and women in particular, led to some of the first empathetic—and least romanticized—depictions of the rural working class. 

The exhibition runs from June 16 - October 22, 2023 at the Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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