A new exhibit at a Massachusetts gallery purports to show that Monet was not “the anti-draftsman he led the public to believe, and that he relied on drawing both to prepare for his paintings and as an independent form of expression… Although Monet helped perpetrate the myth that he did not, and maybe even could not, draw, nearly 500 of more than 2,500 works mentioned in his catalogue raisonné are sketchbooks, drawings and pastels. Yet, until now, few scholars have paid much attention to them.”