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Over the past fifteen years, the late Adolph Weil Jr., Dartmouth Class of 1935, and his wife Jean have given over 250 Old Master and modern prints to the Hood Museum of Art. This extraordinary gift to the college comprises luminous impressions of engravings, etchings, and woodcuts by the greatest European printmakes: Andrea Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacques Callot, Canaletto, Francisco Goya, William Blake, and Camille Pissarro. Drawing on many pictorial traditions and familiar themes of Western culture, the subjects of these prints include Roman myth, the Old and New Testaments, the lives of the saints, portraiture, literature, landscape, and war. |
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