Four engaging early career curators based in the UK and US discuss their recent or upcoming exhibitions that highlight northern drawings. These curators represent four distinct types or collections: a public municipal museum, a private museum, a university museum, and a private collection. Panelists will give short presentations about their exhibitions and how they engage with their respective collections, followed by a lively panel conversation about their curatorial projects and experiences.
This event is organized by The Drawing Foundation, in association with Trois Crayons and Master Drawings New York 2026, as part of Drawings Week 2026.
Program
Considering Collections: New Curatorial Approaches to Northern Drawings
Sunday, 1 February, 10:30AM
Sotheby’s New York, 945 Madison Avenue
The event is free but registration is required. Registration opens on 7 January 2026.
Panelists
Olenka Horbatsch, Curator of Dutch, Flemish and German prints and drawings, 1400-1800 at the British Museum, London
Early Netherlandish drawings 1400-1600
British Museum, 16 April – 20 September 2026
Sarah Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic
Morgan Library & Museum, 23 October 2026 – 31 January 2027
Elizabeth R. Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Drawing Taught in all its Branches: Selections from the Collection before 1820
Hood Museum of Art, 20 March – 22 May, 2027
Anita V. Sganzerla, Curator for the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London
Imagining the artist at work in Northern drawings – recent acquisitions
Moderators
Alesa Boyle, Co-founder & CEO, Trois Crayons, London
Greg Rubinstein, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings, Worldwide at Sotheby’s