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Keynote Lecture: Tales of the City

Exhibition Program

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  • Lecture
Thursday, November 3, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Gartner Auditorium
Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear, 1586. Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617).

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

About The Event

The CMA’s Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel is a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition featuring rarely seen drawings from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, one of Europe’s oldest and finest collections. Stijn Alsteens offers a historical perspective on the market for old master drawings, focusing on Netherlandish drawings.  

Stijn Alsteens is the international head of old master drawings for Christie’s auctions. Before joining Christie’s, he was the curator of Dutch and Flemish drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Reserve tickets for the Tales of the City symposium on Friday, November 4. 

All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Fortney, David and Robin Gunning, Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Robin Heiser, the Lloyd D. Hunter Memorial Fund, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, Mandi Rickelman, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    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.

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    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.