GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection art museum is pleased to present Drawn from Life and Legend: European Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection. The Hoopes Gallery exhibition includes twenty-five works on paper from the Museum’s permanent collection that date from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Curated by Erin B. Coe, this exquisite exhibition will be on view at The Hyde through September 23, 2007.

The selected works include drawings, pastels, watercolors, and prints by European masters such as Francois Boucher, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Pablo Picasso, Marcantonio Raimondi, Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, and Vancent van Gogh. “This exhibition brings to light the significance of The Hyde’s collection of works on paper,” Coe stated. “We are pleased to feature this distinguished collection by European masters which due to the sensitive nature of works on paper are typically in art storage.”

Themes such as Classical literature and biblical sources, the human figure, and the natural world can be found in the highlighted works and offer an interesting cross section of European art history. While many are highly finished drawings, others are quickly sketched preparatory studies for larger paintings. For example, Grand Canal, Venice, c. 1840, attributed to Joseph M. W. Turner (1775-1851) is a highly finished gouache on paper; while Dancer Tying Her Scarf, c. 1887 by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is a study of a ballerina that appears in several finished oil paintings, including Dancers in the Green Room (c. 1880-94) in The Detroit Institute of Arts.