Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago
December 9, 1979 – March 2, 1980
West Building, Ground Floor, Graphics Galleries
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: 151 drawings represented every generation of Italian artists from the early Renaissance through the 18th century.
Organization: Works for the exhibition were selected by Harold Joachim, curator of prints and drawings at Chicago, and arranged chronologically.
Sponsor: The exhibition was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Attendance: 50,900
Catalog: Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.