Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium

Edited by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy; With contributions by Trent Barnes, Samuel Ewing, Sarah Grandin, Ashley Hannebrink, Laura Kenner, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Sarah Mirseyedi, Marina Molarsky-Beck, David Pullins, Elizabeth M. Rudy, Harmon Siegel, Sean Wehle, and Oliver Wunsch ISBN: 9781891771712 Published 2017 300 pages; 8 ½ x 11 in. 201 color illustrations Softcover Published by Harvard Art Museums Available on the Art & Architecture ePortal    This publication is just one result of a recent collaboration between the Harvard Art Museums and Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Students from two seminars co-taught by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, were charged with helping organize a curricular exhibition that would illuminate drawing’s emergence into modernity over the 18th and 19th centuries. The project has yielded the