Drawings of Choice presented one of the most significant sets of contemporary American drawings from the 1960s through the present. Compiled by a private collector in New York, the collection includes key groups of drawings by more than 40 artists. A powerful group of work in the collection is by prominent American artists such as John Cage, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. The collection is particularly strong in the area of minimal art, with drawings by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Fred Sandback, using the wide range of productive and analytic possibilities of this medium. Another strength of the collection is its important set of works by conceptual artists from the 1970s and 1980s. Like the minimalists, the conceptual artists used the medium as a tool for their thinking and working process. This collection was built over the course of more than three decades and lays out the fundamental currents in American contemporary drawing.
This exhibition traveled to four additional venues:
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
November 14, 2002 to February 2, 2003
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
February 11, 2003 to March 23, 2003
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
April 10, 2003 to June 8, 2003
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
August 22, 2003 to November 16, 2003
Exhibition programming
September 5
10 am: Gallery Conversation
With the collector, Werner Kramarsky. Sponsored by the Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts
September 25
5:30 pm: Artist Talk
With artist Robert Mangold. Sponsored by the Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts
October 9
5:30 pm: Artist Talk
With artist Christine Hiebert. Sponsored by the Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts
October 24
5:30 pm: Lecture
"Donald Judd's Cosmos," a talk by Marianne Stockebrand, director, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Sponsored by the School of Art + Design/College of Fine and Applied Arts
