You can be lucky enough to be born with the ability to draw, but drawing is also a learnable skill that practice improves and makes perfect-ish. Learning to draw is a very rewarding thing to do in ...

This summer the Museum acquired Studies of Butterflies, Moths, Flies, a Beetle, and a Slowworm by the Dutch artist Pieter Withoos (1655–1692). This richly detailed drawing in black chalk, ink, and ...