Artists We’ve Known: Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection Regular Merchandise one that bridges Surrealism and

one that bridges Surrealism and abstraction

Caitlin Haskell

The bullets pierced bags of pigment

Allegra Pesenti is a drawings specialist and curator at large for the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI)

and an essay by David Breslin contextualizes this reiterative aspect of Johns’s career

Artists We’ve Known: Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection Regular Merchandise one that bridges Surrealism andA look at 50 artists and 53 artworks from the 1950s to early 2000s as seen by two astute and wide ranging collectors. The legendary curator Walter Hopps (19322005) was the founding director of the Menil Collection. His more than 50 year career included cofounding the legendary Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles with artist Ed Kienholz, serving as curator and then director of the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum), and time at the Corcoran Gallery