Jim Dine

Wildenstein & Co., in partnership with PaceWildenstein, is pleased to host Jim Dine: Botanical Drawings from March 16 through April 15, 2006, at the Wildenstein gallery, 19 East 64th Street, New York. The exhibition will feature eleven works on paper, dating from 2004 to 2005 and consisting of a mix of materials, including acrylic, charcoal, gesso, ink, oil and spray paint.

Dine, an avid draftsman since the 1970s, has drawn inspiration from his studies of nature to complete this newest body of work. Dine has said, “The reason I’ve made plant drawings all my life is because I’m in love with the plant. I draw, and it’s a way of expressing my feelings at that moment, and also a way to express my feelings about the plant.”

Jim Dine (b. 1935) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied at the University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School prior to receiving his B.F.A. from Ohio University, Athens, where he later enrolled in graduate study. He moved to New York City in 1958, where he had his first group (1958) and solo (1960) exhibitions. Dine instantly became an active figure in the New York art world where he created and staged many of the first “Happenings,” along with artists Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, and Claes Oldenburg. Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, Dine’s paintings, sculptures, photography, and prints have been the subject of over 200 solo exhibitions worldwide, including over 20 solo exhibitions with the gallery since he began association with The Pace Gallery in 1976.

Dine has been the subject of five major surveys and retrospectives since 1970, including The Drawings of Jim Dine, a major traveling retrospective of drawings organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2004); Jim Dine: Walking Memory 1959-1969, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY (1999), which traveled to the Cincinnati Art Museum; Jim Dine, Isetan Museum, Tokyo and Museum of Art, Osaka (1990-91); Jim Dine: Five Themes, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (1984-85), which traveled to the Phoenix Art Museum, The Saint Louis Art Museum, the Akron Art Museum, OH, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Jim Dine, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (1970).

Dine has been the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including the prestigious Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris (2003), the Library Lions Award, New York Public Library (2003), an invitation by the Mayor of Siena, Italy to design the banner for the city’s traditional Palio celebration (2000), election to the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (1998), an honorary doctorate from the California College of Arts and Crafts (1997), special commendation by the Friends of the Bezalel Museum (1996), the Pyramid Atlantic Award of Distinction, Washington, DC (1992), and election to the American Academy of and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York (1980).

Dine’s work is in numerous public collections worldwide including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Cleveland Museum of Art; the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-machi, Japan; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam; the Tate Gallery; London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.

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Jim Dine
Botanical Drawings