Domenico Beccafumi
Italian, 1486-1551)
Group of Men Looking to the Right,c. 1519-24
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, on gray laid paper
Collection of Alfred Moir

Master Drawings from the Collection of Alfred Moir
October 10-December 10, 2000

The art historian Alfred Moir began to acquire an art collection in 1948 during a visit to Europe. About twenty years later, he began to focus on the field of old master drawings, mainly Italian, dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries. This exhibition, organized by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, features seventy-six drawings from Moir's extensive collection and includes works by Domenico Beccafumi, Federico Zuccaro, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Salvator Rosa, Giovani Battista, and Domenico Tiepolo. The large selection of Italian drawings is complemented by a group of French, Dutch, German, English, Russian, and Spanish works. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Alfred Moir.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
(Italian, 1727-1804)
Fame in a Cloud of Putti,n.d.
Pen and black ink, with gray-brown wash on white laid paper
Collection of Alfre Moir

Ludovico Carracci
(Italian, 1555-1619)
Alexander Farnese Directing the Siege of Antwerp,1580s
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, on tan laid paper
Collection of Alfred Moir

Francesco Solimena
(Italian, 1657-1747)
Fame,n.d.
Black chalk on cream laid paper
Collection of Alfred Moir

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