Drawing, then and now

Forty years ago, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York opened Drawing Now: 1955-75 (23 January-19 March 1976), a show that explored the shift of drawing from “a minor ‘support’ medium” to “a major and independent medium with distinctive expressive possibilities altogether its own”, as outlined by the curator Bernice Rose in the exhibition’s catalogue. This week Dominique Lévy Gallery in New York opened Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence