The Drawing Department

The Agnes Mongan Center houses the collections, study room, and curatorial offices of the Fogg Art Museum's departments of prints, drawings, and photographs.

Drawing Collection Highlights
The drawing collection comprises approximately 13,000 drawings by European and American artists from the fourteenth century to the present.

Tiepolo - Head of a Bearded Man Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Head of a Bearded Man, 1753, red chalk washed with water on white antique laid paper, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund, 1946.52

Italy, 16th-18th centuries
Michelangelo, Parmigianino, Tiepolo

Netherlands 16th-17th centuries
Bruegel, Rembrandt, Rubens, de Gheyn

France, 17th-20th centuries
Poussin, Fragonard, David, Géricault, Delacroix, Degas, Matisse, Picasso

Great Britain, 18th-19th centuries
Gainsborough, Blake, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Beardsley

Spain, 19th-20th centuries
Goya, Picasso, Miró

United States, 19th-21st centuries
Homer, Sargent, Whistler, Gorky, David Smith


Sargent at Harvard is a searchable database of images and textual information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums and the Harvard University Portrait Collection. Originally created by Melinda Linderer, the Lynn and Philip A. Straus Intern in the Drawing Department for the academic year 1995-96

A Drawing Glossary, written by Edward Saywell, Lynn and Philip A. Straus Drawing Intern, 1996-97

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