Friendship, Celebration, Gratitude
October 19, 2016 - March 4, 2017
Jules Olitski, Embraced Cream, 2005; Acrylic on canvas; 29 1/4 x 40 inches
This jewel of an exhibition features 34 mostly small works that were given by the artists who created them to friends—fellow artists, dealers, collectors, curators and critics.
Most of the entries on the checklist list the owners demurely as “private collection,” but some of the inscriptions are more revealing.
Thus we have a colored postcard with a Kenneth Noland target image, cleverly decorated with verticals on either side of the target to suggest (to my twisted mind, at least) the impression of a place setting, with fork, plate and knife.