They seem to be deliberately crowded by "Drawings for a Large Picture," which consists of 85 unframed computer drawings displayed in nine vitrines lined with eye-popping blue linoleum.
Every surface is crowded; John Lennon drawings are cheek by jowl with Little Big Horn bullets, dinosaur bones, and photos of the owner with Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson's children and Margaret Thatcher.
While the "Calder to O'Keeffe" subtitle juxtaposes two of the more crowd-drawing and alliterative names, their bearers were born only a decade apart.
Six of the seven top crowd-drawing art shows held in Western Europe and North America in the past year were devoted to art and artists of the late 19th century onwards.
The rules of play on Broadway these days all but demand that crowd-drawing names are an imperative ingredient in straight plays, old or new.
It was an immediate, crowd-drawing scandal, with the British press doing its job of revulsion perfectly; "frankly disgusting" (The Observer), "gross and obscene" (The Daily Telegraph).
Crucial to the shift in the live-music economy was the crowd-drawing power of classic rock acts such as the Rolling Stones and the Police, whose tours topped annual earnings lists.
Centralising byes in the week before the three Origin contests, reducing the number of forced omissions from club football, will have the crowd-drawing talent on the field longer.
Using the new, lightweight equipment that had come on the market after the war, filmmakers like Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin and Ray Ashley, with their "Little Fugitive" in 1953, found that a new kind of drama could be shot in the actual streets of the city, without the crowd-drawing encumbrances of large Hollywood crews and fleets of location trucks.
Next to her dignity, her quiet sense of duty and care (the word most often used of her playing was "noble"), the conquering artistic triumphs and crowd-drawing celebrity that Clara's father or indeed Liszt, desired, showed only as competitions, masculine obsessions of who's strongest, who's biggest, who wins.
