EXHIBITION CALENDAR

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

  • ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779)

    Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
    25 Nov 2025 – 1 Mar 2026

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  • FILIPPINO LIPPI AND ROME

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

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  • IDEA AND LINE ITALIAN DRAWINGS FROM THE MARTIN VON WAGNER COLLECTION

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

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  • 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

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  • BECKMANN

    Städel Museum, Frankfurt
    3 Dec 2025 – 15 Mar 2026

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  • DRAWING OUTSIDE THE LINES, MASTERPIECES FROM THE CENTRE POMPIDOU'S COLLECTION

    Grand Palais, Paris
    16 Dec 2025 – 15 Mar 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

Illustrating Austen

The Holburne Museum, Bath
11 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: from £12.50

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

Il Fascino Discreto del Disegno: La donazione Alessandro Zacchi alla Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Pinacoteca Nazional di Bologna, Bologna
20 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €12

Marie Antoinette Style

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

In the company of friends: portrait drawing in 17th-century London

British Museum, London
23 Sep 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Hoi Polloi

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

The Land Sings Back

The Drawing Room, London
25 Sep 2025 – 14 Dec 2025
Free Entry

'Prince of the Rocks': JMW Turner and the Avon Gorge

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
27 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Donation

David Wilkie | Drawings

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

Rory McEwen: Nature’s Song

Garden Museum, London
8 Oct 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: £16

Egypt: Influencing British Design 1775 - 2025

Sir John Soane’s Museum London, London
8 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 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

Wayne Thiebaud. Delights

Courtauld Gallery, London
10 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: £18

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

Secret Maps

British Library, London
24 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: £20

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 Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
25 Oct 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: £15.95

‘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

Featured
John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
21 Dec 2024 – 4 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Printing Color: Chiaroscuro to Screenprint

Legion of Honor, San Francisco
24 May 2025 – January 4, 2026
Tickets Adult: €20

A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part II, 1670–1900)

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
8 Jun 2025 – 7 Dec 2025
Tickets Adult: $15

Le Mystère Cléopâtre

L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
11 Jun 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Hanna Hirsch Pauli. The Art of Being Free

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
19 Jun 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: SEK 160

Paule Poiret: Fashion is a Feast

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
25 Jun 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

Albert Maignan, un virtuose à la Belle Époque

Musée de Picardie, Picardie
28 Jun 2025 – 4 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €9

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

Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer

MFA Boston, Boston
23 Aug 2025 – 7 Dec 2025
Tickets Adult: $27

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

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

Deconstructing Nature: Environmental Transformation in the Lucas Collection

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
27 Aug 2025 — 4 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Echoes of Dreams Symbolism in Brussels

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

Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static

University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard
30 Aug 2025 – 4 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Allegory & Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

The Met, New York
4 Sep 2025 – 9 Dec 2025
Tickets Adult: $30

William Kentridge. Listen to the Echo

Museum Folkwang, Essen
4 Sep 2025 – 18 Jan 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

William Kentridge. Listen to the Echo

Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden
6 Sep 2025 — 15 Feb 2026
Tickets Adult: €6

In Vino Veritas

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
7 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Free Entry

The Marcille Chardin family: A passion from Orléans

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans
9 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €8

Impressions nabies: Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Vallotton

BnF, Paris
9 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €10

Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington
10 Sep 2025 – 23 Dec 2025
Free Entry

The Grand Tour: Destination Italy

Mauritshuis, The Hague
11 Sep 2025 – 4 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €20

Georges de La Tour From Shadow to Light

Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
11 Sep 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €18.50

Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
12 Sep 2025 – 18 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Surreal on Paper

SMK National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
13 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: DKK 130,00

Soulages, Another Light

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
16 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €15.50

Jean-Baptiste Greuze: L’Enfance en Lumière

Petit Palais, Paris
16 Sep 2025 – 25 Jan 2025
Tickets Adult: €14

Matthias Stom. A Caravaggesque in the Lombard Collections

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

The Subtle Charm of Drawings. The Alessandro Zacchi Donation to the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna
20 Sep 2025 — 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €12

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

Sargent: The Paris Years(1874–1884)

Musée d’Orsay, Paris
23 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Ticket Adult: €16

Italy in Lines – Drawings by Christoph Heinrich Kniep

Casa di Goethe, Rome
24 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2025
Tickets Adult: €6

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

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

Fra Angelico

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
26 Sep 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €16

Anders Zorn

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
26 Sep 2025 – Jan 25 2026
Tickets Adult: €16 (full museum & exhibition entry)

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
26 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: $16

Art Deco of the Regions. Little-known Modernities

Museum of Valencia, Valencia
28 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €9

Eugeen van Mieghem

KMSKA, Antwerp
2 Oct 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €20

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

Van Gogh and the Roulins. Together Again at Last.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
3 Oct 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €24

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

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

Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
4 Oct 2025 – 5 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: $32

Art and Nature : Stone Painting between the 16th and 17th Centuries Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
10 Oct 2025 – 6 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

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

Diana Scultori, “Rare Woodcarver” An Artist Between Mantua And Rome in the 16th Century

Ducale Palace, Mantua
11 Oct 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: $19

The “Divine” Guido Reni in the Savoy Collections and on the altars of Piedmont

The Royal Museums of Turin
11 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €15

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

Jacques-Louis David

Louvre, Paris
15 Oct 2025 – 26 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €22

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

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

Jacques-Louis DAVID

Louvre, Paris
15 Oct 2025 – 26 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €22

Michelangelo and Men

Teylers Museum, Haarlem
15 Oct 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €17.50

Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
17 Oct 2025 — 11 Jan 2026
Free Entry

Renoir Drawings

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

From Monaco to Chantilly, a princess of the Enlightenment in search of freedom

Château de Chantilly, Chantilly
18 Oct 2025 – 4 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €18

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

Bridget Riley Starting Point

Musée d’Orsay, Paris
21 Oct 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: €16

Learning to Draw

Getty Center, Los Angeles
21 Oct 2025 – 25 Jan 2026
Free Entry

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

Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor

MFA Boston, Boston
2 Nov 2025 – 19 Jan 2026
Tickets Adult: $30

[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

Pastels to Share: Collections from Reims, Soissons and Saint-Quentin

Musée Saint Léger, Soissons
7 Nov 2025 – 25 Jan 2025
Tickets Adult: €3

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

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

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