Background
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan was born on March 1, 1951 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Paul Shepard and Anne Piersol (Murray) Morgan.
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"Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings" offers the unique opportunity to enjoy one of America's finest private collections of master drawings. It includes ninety-three of the best drawings from the collection: a variety of Italian, French, Netherlandish, German and British works that span more than four centuries of European art. The roll-call of artists featured in the book is impressive. About half the drawings are Italian, beginning with two exquisite Renaissance sheets by Fra Bartolommeo and including major works by Bronzino, Correggio, Bernini, Guercino and Guardi. Approximately one-quarter of the book is devoted to French drawings, with a particularly strong representation of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century masters, among them Fragonard, Ingres and Delacroix. The Netherlandish and German schools include superb composition drawings by Ferdinand Bol and Koninck and a small but beautiful watercolour by Caspar David Friedrich. The British drawings include landscapes by Gainsborough and Martin, as well as an atmospheric seascape by Constable. This book provides a rare opportunity for collectors, scholars and general readers to enjoy major works of art that are rarely reproduced. The catalogue's sumptuous layout shows all the works in full colour and contains new scholarship on each drawing.
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest draughtsmen of all time, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is celebrated for his naturalism. Born in a time when the elegant deformations and exaggerations of Italian mannerism were still in vogue, Carracci turned instead to nature as his principal inspiration. Much attuned to the everyday world around him, he took as much interest in studying a man bowling, a butcher weighing a piece of meat, or a street entertainer with his monkey as he did in the preparatory studies for his grand mythological and religious paintings. The fruit of this intensive study is abundantly evident in his magnificent drawings of the human figure - from his early works in Bologna to those made in preparation for his greatest commission, the decoration of the Farnese Gallery in Rome. This stunning publication brings together a plethora of Carracci's masterful drawings to provide a unique insight into the technique and skill of one of the premier artists of his time.
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Grasselli, Margaret Morgan was born on March 1, 1951 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Paul Shepard and Anne Piersol (Murray) Morgan.
AB magna cum laude, Radcliffe College, 1973. Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Harvard University, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1987.
Curatorial assistant drawing department, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974-1975;
curatorial assistant print department, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1978;
assistant curator prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984-1989;
curator of Old Master Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, since 1989. Tutor fine arts department Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977. Guest curator exhibition National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980-1984.
Professorial lecturer Georgetown University, Washington, 1988.
("Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Dra...)
(Widely regarded as one of the greatest draughtsmen of all...)
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Member Print Council American (board directors 1993-1996).
Married Nicholas Eugene Grasselli, May 24, 1981. Children: James, Juliana, Anne Regina.