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Menil Drawing Institute Gets Major Gift

June 13, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Robert Rauschenberg, “Preliminary Study Décor for Minutiae” (1954)

The New York Times’s Randy Kennedy has news that the Menil Drawing Institute will be inaugurated with a gift of 110 works by major Postwar and Contemporary artists:

On Thursday, the museum announced one of the largest donations of artworks in its history, a collection of 110 drawings from the holdings of two trustees that will serve as the backbone of the new institute and make Houston one of the most important cities for seeing drawing, especially that of 20th-century titans like Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg.

The drawings, from the collections of Janie C. Lee, a former art-gallery owner and curator, and Louisa Stude Sarofim, a prominent Houston arts patron and chairwoman of the Menil’s board, include 15 by Mr. Johns alone, representing every decade of his career, and significant work by Philip Guston, Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Claes Oldenburg and Ellsworth Kelly.

110 Pieces by Major Artists Go to Menil Drawing Institute  (The New York Times)

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