After six months of restoration works, the Rubin Museum is reopening to the public featuring highlights of Rubin paintings from our permanent collection alongside a special exhibit of little-known works on paper by the late Menashe Kadishman, marking ten years since his passing.
Menashe Kadishman: Canine Verse
Exhibition commemorating the decade anniversary of his death
22.12.25 - 21.3.26
Curators: Carmela Rubin, Edna Erde
The works on display are pastel drawings created in the late 1980s. They were originally intended to illustrate a sequence of children's poems about dogs by renowned poet Nathan Zach. Dogs were particularly close to Zach's heart, and in Kadishman he certainly found a fellow artist who shared his love of animals.
Inspired by Zach's verses Kadishman came up with 33 spontaneous colorful pastel studies of dogs, sometimes accompanied by Zach's words. With or without the text these free-spirited drawings are permeated with a joyous energy.
Following a misunderstanding between the two artists, the book of poems was eventually published with illustrations by another artist. Kadishmans' drawings were then purchased by his dear friends, the collectors Dov and Rachel Gottesman.
We at the Rubin Museum are proud to display this unique trove of canine drawings in Menashe Kadishman's memory.