The Summer 2026 issue of Master Drawings will be of special interest to CODART members, since the issue is dedicated to Northern European Drawings and honors Jane Turner, who was the journal’s Editor from 2004 until 2025, as well as head of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam from 2012 until 2020.

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Contents

Introducing the Master of the Hollow-Eyed Figures: A Draftsman of Puzzling Depictions
by Marleen Ram

“Full of imagination rather than truthfully”: Two Landscape Drawings by Jan Nagel
by Stijn Alsteens

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerrit Pietersz in Context
by Maud van Suylen

Jan Muller’s Écorchés: Drawing the Flayed Body in Late Sixteenth-Century Haarlem
by Austėja Mackelaitė

Reading Stradanus: Newly Uncovered Drawings, Inscriptions, and a Network Revealed
by Julia Siemon

Drawing in Dialogue: Willem Schellinks and Jacob Esselens in the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem
by Vera Hendriks

Anthonie van Borssom as a Draftsman of Figure and History Subjects
by Holm Bevers

Jan Boeckhorst’s Designs for the Story of Apollo: From Recycled Paper to Finished Tapestry Cycle
by Virginie D’haene and An Van Camp

Review

Flemish Drawings in Antwerp and Oxford
by Greg Rubinstein

Cover image Master Drawings Summer 2026 (Vol. 64, No. 2)

About Master Drawings

Master Drawings Association, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York on March 16, 1962, for the purpose of disseminating knowledge in the field of drawings. Its mission is fulfilled mainly through the publication of the subscription-based, academic quarterly journal, Master Drawings, which was launched in 1963. Master Drawings is the leading international periodical for the study of drawings from the fourteenth century to the present day in Europe and the Americas, as well as their global impact and exchange. Edited to the highest academic standards, it is concerned with the publication of newly discovered material and significant reattributions, along with fresh interpretations and methodological approaches.