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Isabelle Dervaux's blog

  • By Isabelle Dervaux
    Thursday, April 2, 2020

    This blog post is an excerpt by curator Isabelle Dervaux from the catalogue accompanying the Morgan’s exhibition The Drawings of Al Taylor.

    In 1991, the German art dealer Fred Jahn visited Taylor’s studio and bought sixty-eight drawings. He subsequently offered to show the artist’s work regularly in his Munich gallery. From then on, Taylor was able to devote himself to his art. He had his first museum exhibition in 1992, at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland.

  • By Isabelle Dervaux
    Thursday, February 14, 2008

    (American, born in Denver, Colorado, 1960)
    Untitled, 2007
    Colored pencil on paper
    30 1/4 x 22 3/4 inches (768 x 578 mm)
    Purchased as the gift of Whitney B. Armstrong and on the Young Associates Fund for Twentieth-Century Acquisitions; 2008.40

  • By Isabelle Dervaux
    Thursday, February 14, 2008

    (American, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1941)
    Untitled (Study for Diamond Mind II), 1975
    Graphite on paper
    30 5/8 x 39 7/8 inches (778 x 1013 mm)
    Inscription: Diamond Mind/Circle of Tears/Fallen All Around me/Fallen Mind/Mindless Tears/Cut like a Diamond/Layout -/12 pc. stone 7 1/2º Rhomboids/Granite 15" on a side.
    Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors' Committee; 2008.10

  • By Isabelle Dervaux
    Tuesday, April 14, 2009

    (American, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1935)
    The Glyptotek Drawings, 1987–88.
    Charcoal on Mylar. 17 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches (45 x 39.4 cm)
    Promised gift of the artist to The Morgan Library & Museum.

  • By Isabelle Dervaux
    Tuesday, March 23, 2021

    In January 2021, the Morgan acquired an exceptional group of twenty prints by Martin Puryear. Made between 2001 and 2014 at Paulson Bott Press, Berkeley, CA, they represent nearly all the prints Puryear made during the first fifteen years of the 21st century and include several of his most important works in this medium.

  • By Isabelle Dervaux
    Thursday, December 16, 2021

    “I kind of draw like you are walking through the forest,” Condo explains. “You don’t really know where you are going. You just start from some point and randomly travel through the paper until you get to a point where you finally reach your destination.”