The Stanley Museum of Art collection of drawings encompasses work by old masters like Guercino, Charles Le Brun, François Boucher, Claude Lorrain, Thomas Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Jean Baptiste Corot, Odilon Redon, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir; it also includes ledger drawings by Plains Indians; and pieces by modern artists including Marc Chagall, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Arshile Gorky, Grant Wood, Philip Guston, and Ben Shahn, among others.

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Collection Highlights

Drawing of an angelic figure with wings raising one hand and pointing to the sky, next to a person with a beard who looks upward.

St. Jerome and the Angel

Guercino
Red chalk drawing on yellowed paper of a person seen from below who is kneeling with hands together and raised.

A Kneeling Figure Seen from Below

Charles Le Brun
Drawing of an angel with wing, curly hair, and flowing robes in the sky leaning down and touching the chest of a woman who is lying next to a small sleeping child.

Hagar & Ishmael in the Desert

Francois Boucher
Chalk drawing of trees arching over a body of water. Tree in foreground has one branch broken off. A figure on far left motions towards the tree.

Landscape with Trees and Hunter

Thomas Gainsborough
A drawing on yellow paper of the bare shoulders, upperback, and face of a woman in near profile. There is the suggestion of a draped white cloth over her body.

Portrait of Gabrielle

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
An oil pastel drawing of two stained glass window in a dark room, one of which extends off the edge of the drawing. The central window shows a blured figure in brown, while the other is primarily blue.

Esquisse de vitrail [Stained glass sketch]

Odilon Redon
Drawing of a figure (top center) who stands in a patch of grass and is surrounded by a field of overlapping rectangels resembling many pieces of paper, which appear to be flying from their hands and filling the paper.

The Author

Ben Shahn
Abstracted view of several trees crossing each other with a vine that weaves between their branches.

Trees No. 7

Marsden Hartley
Blocky pencil sketch of a seated female figure with legs to the side, one knee up, and torso angled forward.

Untitled (seated nude)

Arshile Gorky
A joyful looking person painted with a strong black outline and modeled strokes of yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple appears to be dancing as they mend a boot with a hammer. A pink house is visible outside a window in the top left.

Le Savetier et le Financier [The cobler and the Financier]

Marc Chagall
A watercolor painting in blue and white of a turbulent ocean with a sailboat visible on the horizon towards the center back.

Off Flint Island, Maine Coast

John Marin
Ink drawing of several expressive people in a café. Two people at a table appear overwhelmed as others dance and play music around them. “Café Royal” is written in the lower right.

Untitled (Café Royale)

Philip Guston
Drawing of a landscape in sepia tones, with trees, a lake, and castle like structure center left

Landscape Composition

Claude Lorrain
A group of animals (hen, chick, dog, cat, squirrel) drawn against an orange background.

Animals

Grant Wood