Loose Leaf Notebook drawings - Box 16, Group 9 (One in a group of 13 drawings) (Primary Title)
Richard Tuttle, American, born 1941 (Artist)
Fifty Works for Fifty States: In 2008, in a unique partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Vogels distributed twenty-five hundred works across the country, giving fifty works to one art museum in each of the fifty states. This exhibition, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, showcases the fifty works VMFA received as part of that initiative, which bears the same title. As a diverse and rich body of work, the Vogels' generous giftattests to their passion and commitment to sharing contemporary art with the public.
Richard Tuttle The Vogels met Tuttle at his first solo exhibition in the late 1960s. Although his extreme minimalism caused much dismay, the Vogels fervently supported his work. Likewise, Tuttle appreciated their insights: Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going throughthe brain. The small drawings displayed here may have been studies for sculptures. Preferring humble materials such as string and wire, Tuttle often placed his diminutive objects in unexpected places, nailing them to the wall or laying them on the floor. Likewise, for his Loose Leaf series, he painted small watercolors on notebook paper, using the lines as a grid that contrasts with the delicate gestures and organic curves of his painted shapes.
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