The drawing collection became a separate entity in the mid-1990s, when an electronic cataloguing system was introduced, and it currently (in 2013) numbers over 1600 items. The fact that the collection was not previously a distinct element and served various purposes (e.g. travelling exhibitions) meant that no overall concept guided the collection.
Drawing plays various roles in individual artists’ creative processes, and perhaps that is why it is more difficult in drawings to trace the development of the modern art movements we see operating in paintings. In consequence the collection is highly diverse, and includes brief sketches and preparatory works, illustrations and factual documentation, as well as abstract works, rendered calligraphically or as automatic drawings, that are intended as the definitive output. Techniques include pencil, ink, crayon, watercolour, gouache, collage, alchemage, froasage, etc. Among the oldest works are several small sketches by Czech romantic artists, although the number of drawings from the 19th century is very small. The core of the collection comprises artists from the 20th century, especially the latter half.
Bedřich Havránek
Břeh Sázavy, okolo 1859, tužka / papír
František B. Zvěřina
Ufer - Studie am Isonzo bei Salkano, 1868, tuš / papír
Roman Havelka
Kaštel Lukšič, akvarel / papír
Luděk Marold
Prodavač kaštanů, kvaš / papír
Jaroslav Panuška
Čert vyřezává dítě, 1907, uhel / papír
Antonín Procházka
Holubář, 1924, tužka / papír
Toyen
Kresba, 1932, tuš, akvarel / papír
František Tichý
Sedící žena, 1942, tuš / papír
Josef Lada
Náves v zimě, 1948, kvaš / papír
František Hudeček
Noční ulice, 1947, tuš / papír
Václav Hejna
Dvě postavy u stolu, komb. tech. / papír
Richard Fremund
Krajina s mostem, 1953, kvaš / papír
Vladimír Janoušek
Konstrukce v krajině, 1969, tuš / papír
Jan Hendrych
Protržený most, 1996, komb. tech. / papír
Pavel Mühlbauer
Dvůr, 1979, pastel / papír
Aleš Veselý
Bez názvu, 1993, komb. tech. / papír
Ladislav Novák
Dvě (nebo tři) postavy na vzdáleném pobřeží, 1974, froasáž / papír
Alena Nádvorníková
Můj Ubu, 1989, tuš / papír
v regionu: Otto Stritzko
Madona, kvaš / karton
v regionu: Josef Kos
Cihelna, papír / pastel
v regionu: Jindřich Boška
Proměny, 1968, alchymáž /papír
v regionu: Gustav Krum
Požár, 1960, uhel / papír
ilustrace: Adolf Hoffmeister
P. Robenson - Píseň svobody, 1952, komb. tech. / papír
ilustrace: Antonín Pelc
malíř Alois Fišárek, 1955, komb. tech. / papír