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Dutch and Flemish drawings at the Fogg, plus new drawings in JP
BY RANDI HOPKINS

The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525?-1569) was among the most innovative and influential artists of his time, producing landscapes that are remarkable for their acute observation of nature as well as for the artist’s idiosyncratic use of perspective, and the highly spirited, often humorous images of peasant life that delighted his contemporaries and inspired his followers. But Bruegel’s enormous popularity and influence during his own lifetime were due not so much to his paintings as to the wide dissemination of engravings based on his imaginative and superbly rendered drawings.

And it is those drawings that are taking center stage here this month, along with exquisite work by Rembrandt and his pupils and followers and many other less well-known artists, including Cornelis van Haarlem and Joachim Wtewael, in the exhibition "Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection," which opens at the Fogg Museum of Art next Saturday. The Abramses are Boston collectors who have been acquiring old-master Dutch and Flemish drawings for more than 40 years, and this show features their most significant recent acquisitions, including works that bring to life that gorgeous, stretched-out Northern European seascape and document the now-vanished Dutch country houses of the period. With more than 100 drawings, this absorbing display and the scholarly catalogue that accompanies it will immerse you in the fine detail and zest for life exhibited by these dazzling draftsmen.

Drawing is also alive and well in Boston today, as is attested by "Danielle Dwyer, L. Michael Ledbetter, and Suzannah Sinclair: Works on Paper," which opens at the Gallery @ Green Street in Jamaica Plain next Friday. These artists use the intimacy that working on paper affords to very different ends. Dwyer paints scenes from her family photo album onto postage stamps and postcards. Ledbetter uses a vintage cartoon style to draw floaty scenes and figures accompanied by hand-written captions with only the vaguest relationship to the images. Sinclair makes dreamy little watercolors that hark back to the sexy playfulness of model Jean Shrimpton (check her out at www.swinginchicks.com if you don’t remember who she is).

On another note: here’s a good show that doubles as a good cause. "Hubbub!", a one-night extravaganza to raise money for the Boston Center for the Arts, will be held in the BCA’s Cyclorama on Thursday March 27 beginning at 6 p.m. There’ll be lots of performance and visual art, lots of food and drink (donated by some of Boston’s best eateries), plus an auction of objects and "artful acts." Among the performers will be artist Hiroko Kikuchi and members of Boston Ballet; the items up for auction will original works of art, music lessons with a master, and a cameo role in the next show of a BCA theater-in-residence. This is a classy event — ticket prices start at $250 per person — but you’ll leave transformed (or at least well fed)!

"Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection" is at the Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street in Harvard Square, from March 22 through July 6; call (617) 495-2397. "Danielle Dwyer, L. Michael Ledbetter, and Suzannah Sinclair: Works on Paper" is at the Gallery @ Green Street, in the Orange Line’s Green Street MBTA Station in Jamaica Plain, from March 21 through April 26. Call (617) 522-0000. "Hubbub!" will take place at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama, 539 Tremont Street in the South End, on Thursday March 27, beginning at 6 p.m. Individual tickets are $250; call (617) 267-2524.

Issue Date: March 13 - 20, 2003

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