Jim Dine

by Jim Dine

This book presents for the first time Jim Dine?s 'Secret Drawings', a series of 45 majestic, dynamic and dense drawings made between 2012 and 2018 in his studios in Walla Walla, Washington, and Paris. Ranging in size from 50 x 70 to 104 x 152 cm, these works are the product of Dine's intense, restless processes of application, erasure and most importantly re-working, using materials as diverse as charcoal, China ink, pastel, fixative, oil enamel and acrylic paints, as well as collage. The textures of the papers--what I had on the floor and lying around--vary greatly, as do Dine's tools,...