Special Exhibitions

French Master Drawings

August 26-October 28, 2001 Cleveland Museum of Art visitors will be the first to see an exhibition of highlights from the nearly three-decades-long collecting career of Clevelander Muriel E. Butkin. Butkin owns about 450 French drawings, most from the 18th and 19th centuries, from which 59 have been chosen for the show. Well-known artists represented in the exhibition include François Boucher, Edgar Degas, Théodore Géricault, and Jean-François Millet. Admission is free. After this exhibition closes at the CMA it will be traveling to New York, where it will be on view at the Dahesh Museum of Art, 601 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (www.daheshmuseum.org). Collecting French Drawings in Cleveland Highlights of the Exhibition Also on View Membership and Museum Hours Free Public Programs Glossary of Drawing Terms

Luc-Olivier Merson (18461920). Nôtre-Dame de Paris, about 1881. Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, black and white gouache, and graphite; 326 x 217 mm Collection of Muriel Butkin [cat. no. 56]