Edward Lear
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Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 2023 · Accession 2023.127 · Watecolor over pencil, heightened with white
Delia E. Holden Fund
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2019 · Accession 2019.460 · Watercolor and pen and ink on gray paper
Gift of Allen Staley, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2017 · Accession 2017.1 · Watercolor over pen and ink and graphite on wove paper
The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Adele Birdsall Houghton, and her parents, Dorothy Knox and Tom Houghton
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2017 · Accession 2017.119 · Watercolor over pen and ink and graphite on wove paper
The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Lieutenant J.G. John Kelvin Koelsch
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession 2014.225 · lithograph with tint stone
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession 2014.224 · color lithograph
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession 2014.635.4 · Watercolor over graphite
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon Douglas III, 2014
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2013 · Accession 2013.734 · Tint lithograph on ivory wove paper
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2013 · Accession 2013.110 · Graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolor
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2012 · Accession 2012.136.897 · Hand-colored lithograph
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2011 · Accession 2011.26.16A · Pen and ink
Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of Stuart and Beverly Denenberg
Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2011 · Accession 2011.26.16A-B · Pen and ink
Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of Stuart and Beverly Denenberg
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The Art Newspaper’s editors have selected their top art books of 2025, featuring a diverse range of titles. Highlights include "Kerry James Marshall: …
cultureDec 2, 2025
The article analyzes William Holman Hunt's 1853 painting *The Awakening Conscience*, which depicts a woman in a Victorian parlor rising from the lap o…
reviewJul 17, 2025
A new book titled *From Ted to Tom* collects the illustrated envelopes that Edward Gorey (1925-2000) sent to his friend Tom Fitzharris between 1974 an…
cultureApr 28, 2025
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POETICAL TOPOGRAPHY: TRAVELS WITH EDWARD LEAR

Edward Lear

8 Duke Street St James's, London SW1Y 6BN, UK

Jun 28, 2024 — Jul 5, 2024

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Art Fair Appearances1

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TEFAF New York — New York
2018
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Art Fair
TEFAF New York 2018
Oct 27, 2018
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Edward Lear dies
Jan 1, 1888
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Edward Lear born
Jan 1, 1812