EXHIBITION CALENDAR

A selection of ongoing and upcoming eXHIBITIONS with drawings at their core

  • TURNER IN JANUARY

    Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    1 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2026

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  • PAINTERS, PORTS AND PROFITS: ARTISTS AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1750-1850

    Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
    8 Jan 2026 – 21 Jun 2026

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  • DRAWN TO VENICE

    Legion of Honor, San Francisco
    24 Jan 2026 – 2 Aug 2026

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  • CEZANNE

    Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
    25 Jan 2026 – 25 May 2026

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  • A VIEW OF ONE'S OWN: LANDSCAPES BY BRITISH WOMEN ARTISTS 1760–1860

    The Courtauld, London
    28 Jan 2026 – 20 May 2026

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  • VIOLLET-LE-DUC: DRAWING WORLDS

    Bard Graduate Center, New York
    28 Jan 2026 – 24 May 2026

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FULL LISTINGs

Featured
Turner 250: Breaking Waves

Turner Contemporary, Margate
8 Apr 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
Free Entry

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

Wellcome Collection, London
26 Jun 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Millais In Perthshire

Perth Art Gallery, Perth
25 July 2025 – 30 April 2027
Free Entry

Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists

The National Gallery, London
13 Sep 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: £27

Theatre Picasso

Tate Modern, London
17 Sep 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: £14

Marie Antoinette Style

V&A, London
20 Sep 2025 – 22 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: Weekday £23.00 / Weekend £25.00

Hoi Polloi

The Brown Collection, London
24 Sep 2025 – 8 Aug 2026
Free Entry

David Wilkie | Drawings

National Galleries of Scotland: National, Edinburgh
30 Sep 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Shadowscapes: Heaney, JMW Turner and Quantum

Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
9 Oct 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Free Entry

Shadowscapes: Heaney, JMW Turner and Quantum

Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
9 Oct 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Free Entry

Nordic Noir, works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson

British Museum, London
9 Oct 2025 – 22 Mar 2026
Free Entry

The Singh Twins and Flora Indica

Kew Gardens, London
11 Oct 2025 –12 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: £24

Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

Charleston in Lewes, Lewes
15 Oct 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: £12.50

Drawing the Italian Renaissance

The King's Gallery, London
17 Oct 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: £11

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter.

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
18 Oct 2025 – 28 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: £11

Impressions in Watercolour: J. M. W. Turner and his Contemporaries

TOWNER, Eastbourne
23 Oct 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: £9

The Lost Surrealist: Henry Orlik's Quantum Revolution

Museum & Art Swindon, Swindon
24 Oct 2025 – 14 Mar 2026
Free Entry

Turner: Always Contemporary

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
25 Oct 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: £16

‘To see oursels as ithers see us!’ | Robert Burns

National Gallery Scotland, Edinburgh
30 Oct 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Anna Ancher: Painting Light

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
4 Nov 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: £18

Wright of Derby: From the Shadows

The National Gallery, London
7 Nov 2025 – 10 May 2026
Tickets Adult: £14

'Don't Let's Ask For the Moon...: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
14 Nov 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
Donate what you can

Roger Fry

Charleston in Firle, East Sussex
15 Nov 2025 – 15 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: £10

It's not just black and white. Renaissance and Baroque drawings in chalk and charcoal

Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford
15 Nov 2025 – 16 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: £6

Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk

Gainsborough House, Sudbury
15 Nov 2025 – 22 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: £15

John Constable and David Lucas: A Unison of Feeling

V&A South Kensington, London
15 Nov 2025 – 14 Jun 2026
Free Entry

William Nicholson

Pallant House, Chichester
22 Nov 2025 – 10 May 2026
Tickets Adult: £17

Turner in Time

The Whitworth, Manchester
22 Nov 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters

Watts Gallery Artists’ Village, Surrey
27 Nov 2025 – 4 May 2026
Tickets Adult: £18

Turner and Constable

Tate Britain, London
27 Nov 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: £24

Turner in January

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2026
Free Entry

John Singer Sargent: an American in Worcestershire

Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Worcestershire
17 Jan 2026 – 14 Jun 2026
Tickets Adult: £6.50

Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy

The Box, Plymouth
24 Jan 2026 – 31 May 2026
Free Entry

A View of One’s Own: Landscapes by British Women Artists. 1760–1860

The Courtauld, London
28 Jan 2026 – 20 May 2026
Tickets Adult: £14

Lucien Freud: Drawing into Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London
12 Feb 2026 – 4 May 2026
Tickets Adult: £23

Seurat and the Sea

The Courtauld, London
13 Feb 2026 – 17 May 2026
Tickets Adult: £ 18

Featured
Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1 Jul 2025 – 9 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: $30

The Bold and the Beautiful: 16th-Century Prints and Drawings from the Myron Miller Collection

MFA Boston, Boston
12 Jul 2025 – 13 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: $27

American Landscapes in Watercolor from the Corcoran Collection

National Gallery, Washington
2 Aug 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Free Entry

British Portrait Miniatures: Tokens of Love and Loss

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
22 Aug 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
24 Aug 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: $15

Echoes of Dreams Symbolism in Brussels

Maison Hannon, Saint Gilles
29 Aug 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: €14

At Home with Ter Borch – Artist Family in Zwolle

Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
6 Sep 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €17

Matthias Stom. A Caravaggesque in the Lombard Collections

Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
18 Sep 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
20 Sep 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: $23.60

Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson

Metropolitan Museum, New York
20 Sep 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: $30

The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
20 Sep 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: $23.60

Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt

Belvedere, Vienna
25 Sep 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €16.50

Worlds, journeys, stories…and then there’s Jacovitti! Illustrations from the Editrice La Scuola archive

Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia
2 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video

Menil Drawing Institute, Houston
4 Oct 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Dangerously Modern Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890 – 1940

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
11 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: $35

Manet & Morisot

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion on Honor, San Francisco
11 Oct 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: $35

Drawing from Nature

Centraal Museum, Utrecht

11 Oct 2025 – 29 Mar 2026

Tickets Adult: €17.50

Drawing with Raphael: The Decoration of the Garnier Opera House’s Foyer

Musee d’Orsay, Paris
14 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €16

Don Quixote: A Madman’s Tale, a Tale Worth Laughing At

Mucem, Marseille
15 Oct 2025 – 30 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €11

Renoir Drawings

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
17 Oct 2025 – 8 Feb 2025
Tickets Adult: $25

Japanese Art. Japanese Fantasies in the Time of Felicien Rops

Musée Félicien Rops, Namur
18 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
19 Oct 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: $3

Rosso and Primatice Renaissance at Fontainebleau

Beaux–Arts De Paris, Paris
22 Oct 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €2 – €10

Face2Face

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt
23 Oct 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

Old Master Drawings at Casa Masó. 18th and 19th Centuries

Casa Masó, Girona
24 Oct 2025 – 21 Mar 2026
Free Entry

Vallotton Forever. The Retrospective

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
24 Oct 2025  — 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult:CHF 15.-

Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
25 Oct 2025 – 29 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: $18

Focus on Graphic Art: Francisco de Goya – Etchings #1

Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
30 Oct 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €10

Face to Face

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
31 Oct 2025 – 1 May 2026
Free Entry

[On the walls] Four Drawings by Eugene Delacroix

Musée des Beaux Arts Bordeaux, Bordeaux
3 Nov 2025 – 23 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

Pekka Halonen An Ode to Finland

Petit Palais, Paris
4 Nov 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €17

The Carracci Drawings

Louvre, Paris
5 Nov 2025 – 2 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €22

Jean Dampt. Image Tailor

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
7 Nov 2025 – 9 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €9

Focus on the Peck Collection: On the Waterfront

Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina
7 Nov 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Maurice Denis, 1920s. The Splendor of the South

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, Nice
8 Nov 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €10

Victor Hugo Decorator

Maison Victor Hugo, Paris
13 Nov 2025 – 26 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: €11

Expedition Drawing. Masters from the Low Countries in Close-Up

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln
14 Nov 2025 – 15 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

The Art of transmitting: The Antoine Béal Collection

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans
15 Nov 2025 – 29 Mar 2026
Free entry

Fragile: Friable media in Belgian art on paper

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
19 Nov 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: €10

Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
21 Nov 2025 – 22 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: $22

Idea and Line Italian Drawings from the Martin von Wagner Collection

Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg
22 Nov 2025 – 22 Mar 2026
Free Entry

Bartolomeo Cesi. Painter of Silence in the Age of the Caracci

Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna and Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna, Bologna
22 Nov 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €6

Austrian Expressionism and Otto Kallir

LACMA, Los Angeles
23 Nov 23 2025 – 31 May 2026
Tickets Adult: $28

Viktor Oliva – Drawings (as a part of the exhibition 1796–1918: Art of the Long Century)

Trade Fair Palace, Prague
24 Nov 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: 250 Kč

Joseph Uhl – The Graphic Series Per Aspera and Astra (as a part of the exhibition 1796–1918: Art of the Long Century)

Trade Fair Palace, Prague
24 Nov 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: 250 Kč

H.G. Ibels, a committed Nabi

Musée départemental, Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
25 Nov 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
25 Nov 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

The Devil: Myth, Power, Mystery

The Study Room, Draiflessen, Steinfurt
26 Nov 2025 – 26 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: €9

“On to new works” – Max Slevogt and his publisher Bruno Cassirer

The Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz
27 Nov 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €6

Filippino Lippi and Rome

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
28 Nov 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Free Entry

Kids! Between Representation and Reality

Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
28 Nov 2025 – 6 Apr 2026
Tickets Adult: €12

Étretat, beyond the cliffs: Courbet, Monet, Matisse

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
29 Nov 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €12

Giovanni Boldini: The Seduction of Painting

Cavallerizza, Lucca
2 Dec 2025 – 2 Jun 2026
Tickets Adult: €17.50

On Travelling and Being At Home (as part of This is all me! The Christoph Müller II Donation)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Picture Gallery, Berlin
2 Dec 2025 – 8 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €14

Beckmann

Städel Museum, Frankfurt
3 Dec 2025 – 15 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €16

Drawing Flaubert : Rochegrosse

Musée Flaubert, Rouen
5 Dec 2025 – 18 May 2026
Free Entry

Spotlight on the Henri & Suzanne Baderou Donation

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
5 Dec 2025 – 18 May 2026
Free Entry

The Fascination of Paper

Albertina, Vienna
11 Dec 2025 – 22 March 2026
Tickets Adult: €19.90

DRAWING OUTSIDE THE LINEs. MASTERPIECES FROM THE CENTRE POMPIDOU'S COLLECTION

Grand Palais, Paris
16 Dec 2025 – 15 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70

The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts
December 20, 2025–March 8, 2026
Tickets Adult: $22

The Mannerist Mind – Prints from the Georg Baselitz Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest
11 Dec 2025 – 15 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: HUF 5800

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
20 Dec 2025 – 17 May 2026
Free Entry

Turner as Inspiration

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
1 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
8 Jan 2026 – 21 Jun 2026
Free Entry

Delacroix. A Place, An Artist

Musée National Eugène Delacroix, Paris?
10 Jan 2026 – 6 Sep 2026
Tickets Adult: €9

The Unfinished: Between Poetics and Performance Technique

Musei Capitolini, Pinacoteca
15 Jan 2026 – 12 Mar 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

The Worlds of Jan Toorop

Singer Laren, Laren
21 Jan 2026 – 10 May 2026
Tickets Adult: €19.5

Drawn to Venice

Legion of Honor, San Francisco
24 Jan 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
Tickets Adult: $20

Cezanne

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
25 Jan 2026 – 25 May 2026
Tickets Adult: CHF 25

The Total Art Drawings from the Vienna Secession

Musee d’Orsay, Paris
27 Jan 2026 – 17 May 2026
Tickets Adult: €16

Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds

Bard Graduate Center, New York
28 Jan 2026 – 24 May 2026
Tickets Adult: $15

Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
31 Jan 2025 – 1 Jun 2026
Tickets Adult: $26

Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024

Art Institute Chicago, Chicago
31 Jan 2026 – 1 Jun 2026
Tickets Adult: $26

Metamorphoses. With Works by Caravaggio, Titian, Rodin, Bourgeois, Brancusi and more

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
6 Feb 2026 – 25 May 2026
Tickets Adult: €25

Honore Daumer: Mirror of Society

Albertina, Vienna
6 Feb 2026 – 25 May 2026
Tickets Adult: €19.90

Bosporus Beats: Views of Istanbul from 1500 to 1800

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

13 Feb 2026 – 31 May 2026
Tickets Adult: €6

Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris

National Gallery of Art, Washington
14 Feb 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
Free Entry

Sergel – Fantasy and Reality

National Museum, Stockholm
19 Feb 2026 – 9 Aug 2026
Tickets Adult: 160 SEK

Northern Light: Scandinavian and Dutch Drawings from the Musee d’Orsay

Musee d’Orsay, Paris
24 Feb 2026 – 10 May 2026
Tickets Adult: €16

Individuality and Identity: Naming Sitters in French Portrait Drawings