Drawing on Experience: Three Collectors on Collecting European Drawings

This panel discussion, an event held in conjunction with the current Ackland exhibition Masters of the Medium: European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum will focus on the issues and trends in collecting European drawings, presented from three perspectives. The speakers – a leading museum curator, a London art dealer and a New York private collector – represent three distinct approaches to collecting drawings.

• Innis H. Shoemaker is The Audrey and William H. Helfand Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a former director of the Ackland Art Museum.
• Flavia Ormond is an art dealer who specializes in Old Master drawings, with a particular emphasis on Italian drawings. Her gallery, Flavia Ormond Fine Arts, Ltd., is located in London but she regularly shows in New York at the Adelson Galleries and exhibits at major fine arts fairs in New York, London and Paris.
• Carol O. Selle is a private collector of European master drawings, principally from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as well as American contemporary works. She has curated drawings exhibitions at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.