“Jim Dine, some drawings,” featuring 84 of Dine’s drawings in watercolor, charcoal, enamel, pastel and other media, will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art from September 18 through January 8.

Essentially an expressionist with a classical bent, Jim Dine’s style emphasizes draftsmanship while underscoring the ultimate importance of emotional content. His images of robes, hearts, tools and the Venus De Milo, which appear repeatedly in paintings, prints and sculptures, are legendary.

Using bathrobes and tools as his signature subjects, Dine came to prominence as a Pop artist in the early 1960s. Beginning in the 1970s, figuration and life drawing became the impetus behind much of his work and Dine frequently used mixed media and ready-mades to produce his paintings. He subsequently returned to traditional painting techniques incorporated with collage, printing, etching and papermaking.

Many of the works in the exhibition are drawn from the artist’s own collection and the collection of Arnie Glimcher, Diana Michener and PaceWildenstein, New York. They include large-scale drawings as well as more typical full sheet size drawings.

Dine indicates that he does not try to reproduce what an object looks like but strives to capture its essence. “My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don’t mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally,” Dine writes in the catalog that accompanies the exhibition.

Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and in 1957, he received a BFA degree from the University of Ohio. In 1958, he was lured away from the graduate program at Ohio University by the excitement of the New York art scene. Dine actively sought out and befriended many of his already established contemporaries, including Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers.

His first involvement with the art world occurred during the Happenings staged by Allan Kaprow in 1959-60, in which artists actively exchanged ideas, sometimes resulting in a change of focus or content in an individual’s work.

“Jim Dine, some drawings” is curated by Stephanie Wiles, director, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, with Jim Dine. A full color publication of the exhibition featuring essays by Jim Dine and Vincent Katz is published by Steidl and available in the Neuberger Museum of Art Store.

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