Drawing Collections:

Art in Context
A Century of Drawing
Project Apollo
Sketchbooks

American Museum of Papermaking

Art Gallery of Ontario/Musee des Beaux-Arts de l’Ontario
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The Art Institute of Chicago Museum - Prints and Drawings

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

1,269 works on paper

Birmingham Museum of Art - Prints and Drawings

The British Museum
Houses the National Collection of Drawings and has outstanding collections that cover world cultures from Prehistory to the present day. View the collections and take online tours.

Compass Search: Drawings

Carnegie Museum of Art TIMELINE
History at a glance. The collections of the CMOA presented in a clever "timeline" covering 15th through 20th century, including section on works on paper.

Cleveland Museum of Art - Highlights of the Prints and Drawing Collection

Getty Art Museum Collections

The Collections: Drawings (Ink, Metalpoint, Oil on Paper, Pastel, Pencil, Preparatory Studies, Watercolor, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon)

The Guggenheim

New York (Drawing Collection)

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Go to Collections; then go to Prints, Drawings and Photographs; then go to General Collection to study selected works by Albrecht Durer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Julie Margaret Cameron, Mauricio Lasanky

The Louvre

Online gallery of 14th thru 19th century selections from collections

Museum of Modern Art

Highlights of the Drawing Collection
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Smithsonian American Art Museum - online exhibits and collections

Go to Collections and Exhibitions, then go to Browse the Collection, then select Drawings from the listed Categories to see more than 1,588 works of art on paper

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

See highlights from The Achenbach Foundation, one of the largest collections of works of art on paper in the United States.

Baltimore Museum of Art
The BMA houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of works on paper in the country showcasing works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, and Edouard Manet, and photographers Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Weston. Works from the 15th century to the present are shown through a series of BMA-organized exhibitions.

National Gallery of Art - Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs

J. Paul Getty Museum - The Drawing Collection

Library of Congress – The Library of Congress offers a national collection of printed material including books, comics, engravings, lithographs, etc.

Life of the People: Realist Prints & Drawings from the Ben & Beatrice Goldstein Collection

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Visual arts museum located in sunny LA shares general information with potential visitors. Find an events listing, online exhibits and a library.

Browse the Prints and Drawings

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum owns approximately 11,000 drawings

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Browse 500+ selected works from the Prints and Drawings Collection

MoMA.org | The Museum of Modern Art

Research affiliation: Research Library Group
Highlights of the Drawing Collection
Pictures and Articles on Past and Current Shows

Museum of Papermaking

The National Gallery, London
Western European paintings from 1260-1900 AD

National Museum of Stockholm - Print and Drawings

National Gallery of Art, U.S.A.
Go to Search, then Search the Site with Keyword Drawings - to see 1,001+ matches

National Museum of Women in the Arts - works by women, all periods & nationalities
Keyword Search under Medium: Drawing yields 235 items

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Go to Collections; scroll to Highlights of the Collection; then go to Prints Drawings and Photographs

The State Hermitage Museum
Drawings and Watercolors

The State Russian Museum Drawing and water-colour. Some 6,000 study drawings entered the museum from the Academy of Arts in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Tate Gallery
Tate holds the national collections of British Art and of international modern art.
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University of Montana Museum of Fine Arts - Drawings Collection
Includes online galleries featuring the drawings of Montana artists Robert DeWeese, Robert Hocking, Lois Lenski, E.S. Paxson, Philip John.

Victoria and Albert Museum
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