Odilon Redon: Selections from the Woodner Family Collection

This exhibition of works by the French artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) focused on the artist's haunting charcoal noir drawings from the mid-1860s through the 1890s. These shadowy drawings provided a view into Redon's mysterious world of dream landscapes, psychically charged mythological scenes, religious subjects, and apparitional portraits that appeared to surface from the depth of the artist's unconscious.

In 1986, Ian Woodner founded the Woodner Family Collection, a not-for-profit foundation that supports the creation of exhibitions, museum education and acquisition programs, university art and architecture programs, and independent scholarship. The Woodner Family Collection also comprises an internationally known collection of drawings. Amassed by Ian Woodner during the last 40 years of his life, it is one of the largest collections of old master and modern drawings in the United States. This distinctive collection has been exhibited at the Albertina in Vienna; the Prado, Madrid; the Haus der Kunst, Munich; The Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and The Getty Museum, Malibu, California.