Lot Essay
“Starting in the late ’60s, I think that drawing took a new form…For the most part, but not always... drawing had been a way of pre-thinking the structure in a painting. But drawing is not the orphan child of painting; it is a deep, material way of working” (D. Rockburne, quoted in H. Moss, “Returning, Again, to American Drawing in the 1960s,” New York Times, 27 January 2016).