Final Weeks: Dan Flavin at the Morgan

DAN FLAVIN: DRAWING
CLOSES SUNDAY, JULY 1

Entering its final three weeks, Dan Flavin: Drawing is the first exhibition devoted to the central role that drawing played in the artist’s work and life. Dan Flavin: Drawing is on view through Sunday, July 1, 2012.

In addition to more than one hundred drawings by the artist—from early abstract expressionist watercolors, to studies for his seminal light installations, to late pastels of sailboats—the exhibition also features nearly fifty works from Flavin’s personal collection of drawings, including nineteenth-century Hudson River School landscapes, Japanese drawings, and twentieth-century works by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt.

Image of Flavin drawing Two major fluorescent light installations are also on view: untitled (to the real Dan Hill) 1a, 1978, a work composed of pink, yellow, green and blue light cast in two directions; and untitled (in honor of Harold Joachim) 3, 1977, a spectacular eight-foot square grid that suffuses the Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery with pink, yellow, green, and blue light.

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Images:

Dan Flavin (1933-1996)
in honor of Harold Joachim in pink, yellow, blue and green fluorescent light 8’ high and wide, 1984
Pen and ink and colored pencil on graph paper
17 x 21 7/8 inches (43.2 x 55.6 cm)
Drawing done by Helene Geary
Collection of Stephen Flavin
© 2012 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York