Welcome to AboutDrawing.org

For artists, scholars, and art enthusiasts interested in modern and contemporary American works on paper, AboutDrawing provides a unique resource for study and exploration. With a focus on the New York-based drawing collection of Werner H. Kramarsky, this site hosts a comprehensive selection of images, essays, artists’ biographies, and other information about artists and exhibitions associated with the collection.

AboutDrawing also acts as an interactive companion to the definitive volume on the Kramarsky collection, 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, edited by Amy Eshoo and published by Yale University Press in February 2008. An engaging reflection on the fifteen years that the collection was headquartered at 560 Broadway in SoHo, this book documents one collector’s contributions to the careers of many emerging New York artists and to the contemporary art world at large.

Both AboutDrawing and 560 Broadway detail, in particular, Wynn Kramarsky’s extensive history of donations to public arts institutions across the country. The site currently limits its scope to materials connected to those artists whose work has been donated. Site visitors may explore images of donated work online and can use the site’s resources to locate objects at their home institutions.

About the Collection

The Kramarsky drawing collection is the result of more than sixty years of interest in Minimal, Conceptual, and Post-Minimal American drawings. With an intuitive attraction to the raw materials and intimate processes involved in making a drawing, a continued interest in developing supportive relationships with artists, and, above all, a commitment to careful looking, Wynn Kramarsky has amassed nearly three thousand works of art, more than half of which have subsequently been donated to museums and other public institutions.