Legacy Society Exhibition Talk: Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel

Special Event

Thursday, November 3, 2022, 11:00 a.m.

Location: Gartner Auditorium

*Standing Officer Holding a Boar’s Spear* (detail), 1586. Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617). Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk heightened with traces of white opaque watercolor over black chalk on paper; 20.6 x 15.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1994.195

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About The Event

Join Emily J. Peters, curator of prints and drawings, as she discusses Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel, a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition featuring rarely seen drawings from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, one of Europe’s oldest and finest collections. Following the presentation, the exhibition will be open for self-guided gallery visits.

A gourmet boxed lunch will be offered in the Parker Hannifin Corporation Donor Gallery. Guests will be able to sit and enjoy lunch or take the boxed lunch to go after visiting the galleries.

Legacy Society members will receive a digital invitation.

The Legacy Society is a group of nearly 400 individuals who have chosen to support the museum by making a commitment to the museum in their will or estate plans. For more information about Legacy Society, click here.

Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

Generous support is provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Additional support is provided by Randall J. and Virginia N. Barbato.

All exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Exhibitions. Principal annual support is provided by Michael Frank in memory of Patricia Snyder. Major annual support is provided by the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous supporter, Dick Blum (deceased) and Harriet Warm, Cynthia and Dale Brogan, Dr. Ben and Julia Brouhard, Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Chapman Jr., Richard and Dian Disantis, the Jeffery Wallace Ellis Trust in memory of Lloyd H. Ellis Jr., Leigh and Andy Fabens, the Sam J. Frankino Foundation, Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn, Carl T. Jagatich, Cathy Lincoln, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, William S. and Margaret F. Lipscomb, Bill and Joyce Litzler, Carl and Lu Anne Morrison, Tim O’Brien and Breck Platner, Henry Ott-Hansen, Michael and Cindy Resch, Margaret and Loyal Wilson, and Claudia C. Woods and David A. Osage.

The exhibition catalogue for Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel was produced with the generous support of the Tavolozza Foundation.

Generous support of the exhibition symposium is provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.