Two Men Fighting (Sheet 73 from Album F, Images of Spain Album), Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828), 1817–20, Brush and brown (irongall) ink, with scraping, 2002.430. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will present Drawing: A Broader Definition, on view October 27, 2007–May 4, 2008 at the Trustman Galleries. This unconventional exhibition includes 66 drawings on a variety of surfaces (paper, ceramic, metal, cloth) produced by artists from diverse world cultures and ranging in date from 4000 BC to the 1950s. The exhibition originated in speculation about how a brush drawing by the great Spanish artist, Goya, would look next to a brush drawing by the great Japanese artist, Hokusai, and resulted in a number of comparisons between objects such as ancient Maya and Greek ceramics, Cmonochrome paintings on silk and African loincloths, as well as drawings by Delacroix. The focus of the exhibition is a comparison of how artists in different times and places have inventively rendered the same subjects: the human figure, landscape, birds and animals, fish and flowers. (by courtesy of www.Artdaily.org)