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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG WORKS AT JONATHAN O’HARA GALLERY, 1 CUT

AVV/GS SET 2-7 #687953

NEW YORK CITY — Jonathan O’Hara Gallery presents a major loan exhibition, “Robert Rauschenberg Transfer Drawings” from the 1960s, on view through March 17.

Featuring 42 works done in a technique that Rauschenberg pioneered, this show gathers nearly half of the transfer drawings he made in this decade. For New Yorkers it is a sequel to the exhibition of Rauschenberg’s “Combines at The Metropolitan Museum” last winter, largely taking up where those multimedia constructions left off. It is the first intensive showing of this body of works since 1986.

Among the featured loans are “Mainspring,” 1965, Rauschenberg’s largest transfer drawing ever created, and selections from the Sonnabend collection.

The imagery of Rauschenberg’s drawings suggests a growing political consciousness, first engaging the Civil Rights movement, followed by the Vietnam war and other events of the stormy late 1960s. The historical watershed of 1968 is well-represented by 23 drawings, at least 15 of which were shown at Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, in October 1968, but have never been seen in this country.

The accompanying catalog includes an essay by Lewis Kachur, PhD, surveying the technique and the works.

Jonathan O’Hara Gallery is at 41 East 57th Street. For information, 212-644-3533 or www.johg.com.