JIM DINE DONATES WORKS TO MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

American artist Jim Dine has promised a series of works on paper to the Morgan Library & Museum, reports Artinfo. The series, “The Glyptotek Drawings,” produced by the artist in 1987–88, comprises forty works that draw inspiration from Greek and Roman sculpture, specifically from the Glyptothek Museum in Munich. The works combine a rich variety of media, including ink, charcoal, crayon, and paint, applied in broad gestures. Occasionally, the artist rubbed and spread the material with an eraser or his fingers. Said Dine: “In creating this work, I did not want to draw the ancient sculptures as dead objects, as stone,” he says. “I wanted to put life into them and make them vigorous and physical. I have long had a great romance with the ancient world, and these works are an expression of that.” As for choosing the new home for the works, Dine explained that the New York–based Morgan is “an institution I have long admired.”