New Fogg Exhibit Demonstrates How to Recognize Art Originals

Fogg Museum opened an exhibit yesterday that shows how a connoisseur can spot a painting as an original. The six-week display, "Connoisseurship Step by Step," features works by Durer, Degas, Toulouse-Lautree, Rembrandt, and Goya.

The exhibit begins with an unlabeled drawing by a famous artist. By comparing the mystory canvas with others, the rest of the panels establish the century of the work, the country and school that produced the artist, and finally, the identity of the man.

Other paintings show the development of his style and the major artistic influences that shaped his work.

The display was arranged by two graduate students, Henry Dorra and Thomas M. Messer, and consists of about fifty original drawings.

The exhibit was conceived and arranged by Thomas M. Messer 1G and Henri Dorra 3G, pictured left to right above, viewing one of the cases.