Drawings and prints by the great Spanish satirical artist, Goya, lent to the Fogg Art Museum by various private collectors, are to be shown until April 1. These works, which have been passed on view for some time and have passed almost unnoticed, constitute the most representative Goya collection in America, there being only two drawings by the master in the country which are not in this exhibition.
Tomorrow at 3 o'clock Miss Elis McGinnis will give a talk on Goya's prints and drawings in the Fogg Large Lecture Room. Following the lecture she will conduct those interested around the exhibit, which is on the first floor of the Museum, pointing out the characteristics of the artists works. She has spent some time in the study of Spanish Art and is a graduate student in fine arts from Radcliffe.
Goya lived in a revolutionary time, when Spain, under the rule of a weak monarch, Charles IV, was the prey of stronger countries. The revolutionary movement sweeping through his country influenced him to start an independent school. Resulting from this turning point are his series of the Disasters of War, Caprices, and Proverbs, all of which are well represented in the Fogg Museum display. Another series is that of the Bull-fight drawings, which show well his tendency towards movement rather than form. It is this character that shows him as the originator, along with his countryman, El Greco, of the modern expressionistic art.
Drawings showing much spirit and feeling are "Man Holding Back a Horse" and the "Prisoner Tortured", there being both a print and drawing for the later subject. These pictures are considered great rarities by the Fogg Museum officials. There are also many rare and valuable prints with some proof impressions. Many of these prints have their titles written on them by Goya himself. Included in the exhibit is a complete succession of these prints showing the development in skill and feeling, ending with some made when he was 80 years of age, the famous "Bulls of Bordeaux."
Although the exhibition in Fogg Art Museum of French Paintings of the XVIII-century has come down two valuable paintings are left hanging which just arrived. These have been donated by private collectors, Richard Owen of Paris and S. H. Kress of New York.
From Owen's collection comes a canvas by Jean Chardin, who was the leader of a school of Parisian still-life painters in the middle of the XVIII-century. It represents a monkey painting a picture for a group of animal spectators. The other painting is of an earlier date, a portrait of a man by Nicholas do Largilliere. Largilliere was one of the greatest portrait painters of his time, and was appointed artist to the French and British Courts for many years.
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