Rubens to Sickert: The Study of Drawing

Rubens to Sickert: The Study of Drawing explores how we learn to draw, and the lessons that drawing teaches. It is linked to Reading Museum and the University of Reading’s joint history as home to an important regional art school, and explores the rich, wider history of drawing in modern British art schools.

Alongside key loans and works from Reading Museum, it highlights the 65 master drawings held at the University of Reading Art Collection by artists including James McNeill Whistler, Giovanni Baglione, Peter Paul Rubens, Walter Richard Sickert, Gwen John, Rita Donagh, and many more. These were collected by James Anthony Betts, the first Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading. He is the figure that appears in the exhibition's logo.

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