Bob Dylan Remastered: Drawings from the
Road opens May 25, 2024
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., May 16, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- A new exhibition at Fenimore Art Museum in
Cooperstown, New York celebrates
another impressive aspect of music legend Bob Dylan's creativity:
his talents in visual art. Bob Dylan Remastered: Drawings
from the Road features ninety-two unique, original signed
works. The exhibition is on view May 25–September 15, 2024.
A dedicated performer, Dylan started what is known as his "Never
Ending Tour" in 1988; between 1989 and 1992, as he traveled through
North America, Europe, and Asia, he began sketching glimpses of his life
on the road. The resultant pencil and charcoal drawings were a way
to "refocus a restless mind," as Dylan claimed, providing him a new
outlet to celebrate the comings and goings of everyday life.
"This exhibition allows everyone, including Dylan's fans, to
experience another aspect of the range of talents possessed by this
music legend," said Chris Rossi,
Director of Exhibitions at Fenimore Art Museum. "We all recognize
him as an accomplished singer/songwriter and visitors will be
equally amazed when discovering his work as a visual artist."
Dylan made three different collections out of the original
drawings by "remastering" these works, adding vivid watercolor and
gouache to digital enlargements of the drawings to create
a new, special edition set entitled The Drawn Blank Series,
which is the focus of Fenimore's exhibition.
All three series were first seen in public during an exhibition
at the prestigious Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Museum in Germany in 2007. After one additional show in
Helsinki, the works returned to
Dylan. Today, The Drawn Blank Series is owned by a private
collector while the other two sets were sold to a private gallery.
Dylan's work has been compared to modern masters such as Henri
Matisse and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
His skills as a draughtsman, in keeping with his talents as a
songwriter, lie with his ability to tell an engrossing tale through
the simplest and most evocative means.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by The Clark Foundation and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Putnam.
This exhibition was provided by PAN Art Connections.
Visit FenimoreArt.org for more information.
ABOUT BOB DYLAN
One of the most iconic and prolific
musicians of our time, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has
been chronicling modern life, note by note, for nearly sixty years.
Equally influential and indomitable, Dylan's songs helped redefine
folk, pop, blues, country, and rock music, all while providing a
soundtrack to America's civil rights and anti-war movements. The
power and breadth of his artistry, however, has only been fully
recognized recently: in 2016 his work creating "new poetic
expressions within the great American song tradition" was honored
with a Nobel Prize for Literature.
ABOUT FENIMORE ART MUSEUM
Fenimore Art Museum, located
on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper's
"Glimmerglass"—in historic Cooperstown,
New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art
including folk art, important American 18th- and 19th-century
landscape, genre, portrait paintings, photography, and the renowned
Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. Changing
exhibitions have featured well-known artists including Keith Haring, Ansel
Adams, Andrew Wyeth, M.C.
Escher, and others. Museum admission is free for ages 19 and under.
Visit FenimoreArt.org.
ABOUT PAN ART CONNECTIONS
PANART is a globally active
company, founded in 2010 by a team of accomplished museum
professionals who are deeply passionate about art and dedicated to
elevating visitor experiences through world class exhibitions.
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