House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

until sunday january 25 2009
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This exhibition showcases Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw’s collection of nineteenth-century watercolor drawings, which meticulously detail the era’s interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, and aesthetic development of European domestic life.

The Blue Room, Schloss Fischbach.Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Klose (German, 1804–after1863) Germany, 1846.Brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Thaw Collection, 2007-27-39. Photo: Matt Flynn

The collection includes examples of English, German, Russian, French, Italian, and Austrian domestic spaces. Selected objects from the Museum’s permanent collection will complement the drawings.