If you find yourself near Massachusetts before Sept. 16, you might want to head to The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to catch The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings exhibition before it closes.

Featured are 23 pastels, 36 drawings and four bound sketchbooks (on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris) that date back to the 1860s through the 1920s. The intrigue—aside from getting to view the artist’s pastels and sketches in person—is that Monet refuted drawing as part of his process.

Here’s a recent review from The New York Times’ Benjamin Genocchio. To find out more about the show, which brings to light insights on the young mind of the Impressionist master, see the Art Matters column in our June 2007 issue.