‘Traces of the Hand: Master Drawings from the Collection of
Frederick and Lucy S. Herman’ Opens Jan. 25 at The Fralin Museum of Art at
U.Va.
Avid collectors since their college days, Frederick and Lucy
S. Herman spent more than 50 years building an impressive collection of more
than 250 works on paper, which they generously donated to The Fralin Museum of
Art at the University of Virginia in 2006 and 2007 for the instruction of its
students.
The museum’s exhibition, “Traces of the Hand: Master
Drawings from the Collection of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman,” features a selection
of drawings from this collection. The exhibition opens Jan. 25 and runs through
May 26.
“‘Traces of the Hand’ celebrates the Hermans’ achievement as
discriminating collectors, highlighting areas in which the collection excels
and which clearly correspond to their tastes and interests,” said the
exhibition’s curator, Lawrence O. Goedde, adjunct curator of prints and
drawings and professor of art history in U.Va.’s McIntire Department of Art.
“These include social satire, portraiture, German Romanticism, and the
depiction of the natural world through landscape and marine imagery.”