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Drawn from artists' collections / organized by Ann Philbin and Jack Shear.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : The Drawing Center, 1999.Description: 125 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 33 cmISBN:
  • 0942324137
  • 9780942324136
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Partial contents Includes works by Carl Fredrik Hill, Joseph E. Yoakum, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Cy Twombly, Fernand Léger, Shane Guffogg, Jim Shaw, Jonathan Borofsky, and other artists.
Summary: This exhibition catalogue includes selections from the personal drawing collections of artists Baselitz, Brown, Fischl, Frankenthaler, Hodgkin, Johns, Katz, Kelly, LeWitt, Lichtenstein, Marden, Murray, Shapiro, Ruscha, Schnabel, and Winters. The works illustrated range from established art historical figures such as Gericault and Tiepolo, to modern masters such as Picasso and Brancusi, to Kotah and Mughal miniatures and a Pygmy bark drawing. Robert Storr addresses why many artists collect and what can be learned by experiencing the medium of drawing through the knowledgeable eyes of artists themselves.

Catalogue of an exhibition also held at UCLA at the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 13 July - 26 Sept. 1999.

Partial contents Includes works by Carl Fredrik Hill, Joseph E. Yoakum, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Cy Twombly, Fernand Léger, Shane Guffogg, Jim Shaw, Jonathan Borofsky, and other artists.

This exhibition catalogue includes selections from the personal drawing collections of artists Baselitz, Brown, Fischl, Frankenthaler, Hodgkin, Johns, Katz, Kelly, LeWitt, Lichtenstein, Marden, Murray, Shapiro, Ruscha, Schnabel, and Winters. The works illustrated range from established art historical figures such as Gericault and Tiepolo, to modern masters such as Picasso and Brancusi, to Kotah and Mughal miniatures and a Pygmy bark drawing. Robert Storr addresses why many artists collect and what can be learned by experiencing the medium of drawing through the knowledgeable eyes of artists themselves.