New Acquisition
April 20, 2018In February, just before the opening of Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin, a number of art dealers from the United Kingdom brought a selection of their holdings to the United States during Master Drawings week in New York. While examining the art, I came upon John Ruskin’s Towers of Fribourg (1856)—the drawing I’ve been looking for throughout my entire career!. I almost couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Very few really good examples of John Ruskin’s work come up for sale, and in the rare instance that it occurs, they are generally priced beyond our means. Surprisingly,…
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