Though a keen collector of old-master drawings, Reynolds himself was never a draftsman, and indeed few of his drawings have any merit whatsoever.
But Koenigs kept scores of paintings and drawings for himself, and they have remained in his family.
A London gallery that showed his "Bag One" lithographs, Lennon's suggestive drawings of himself and Ms. Ono, was raided and charged with obscenity in 1970.
Recently a six-foot tarpon was given to him, & he sent to the Museum of Natural History, a silver-plated horse shoe, a bust of Roosevelt weighing 400 pounds, etc. Tells about his art collection, paintings & drawings of himself done by admirers.
And hanging on the walls of Gray's gallery were Kelly's paintings and drawings of himself as the Mona Lisa, as Caravaggio's Medusa, as van Gogh, and, of course, as Joni Mitchell.
(Although we quite like the idea Jon put the drawings there himself).
This one guy had like 14 different drawings of himself on the walls.
Mr. Goings also opened drawers and pulled out paintings: a 1956 collage called "First Circus"; Bearden's "left-handed drawings" (he trained himself to draw with his left hand, as bone cancer made him lose control in his right); and self-portraits sketched on porous white paper with a black felt-tip pen, made days before his death, showing him slumped in a chair.
(The book also has drawings by Saul Steinberg, Peter Arno, William Gropper and Blechman himself).
But now, as more American collectors come to him for old master drawings, he finds himself spending more time in New York.
