On Location: Drawing the Outdoors

"Bringing together roughly 150 works, On Location: Drawing the Outdoors introduces the techniques, formats, and functions of drawings and watercolors of the outdoors. Centered on Harvard's stellar holdings of British, French, Dutch, German, and Swiss drawings from around 1780 to 1910, the catalogue replicates the thrill of discovery and the variety of subjects found in nature by offering a set of 10 trails, or thematic pathways through the selected works. Besides the short interpretive texts introducing each trail, the book's longer essays highlight patterns of artistic experience of the outdoors, the obstacles and opportunities encountered outside, and the materiality and techniques that define 19th-century drawing"--