This exhibition showcases Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw’s collection of nineteenth-century watercolor drawings, which meticulously detail the era’s interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, and aesthetic development of European domestic life.
The collection includes examples of English, German, Russian, French, Italian, and Austrian domestic spaces. Selected objects from the Museum’s permanent collection will complement the drawings.
House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection is made possible in part by the Arthur Ross Foundation, the Esme Usdan Exhibition Endowment Fund, Jan and Warren Adelson, The Felicia Fund, Albert Hadley, Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Sharf, and the Fifth Floor Foundation. -- www.cooperhewitt.org
Posted May 12th, 2008 by ruzik_tuzik