New York –
The legendary John Lennon
would have turned 68 on October
9 this year, and to commemorate
his lifelong message of peace
and love, his widow and longtime
creative partner Yoko Ono
is exhibiting Imagine
Peace: A LOOK INTO JOHN LENNON’S
LIFE THROUGH HIS ARTWORK,
an internationally
acclaimed, ever-changing exhibit
of Lennon’s characteristic
drawings, at the
Open House Gallery
on Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday October 9, 10, 11 and
12.
Open House is located at 201 Mulberry Street (between Kenmare and
Spring Streets). For more
information please call
(212) 925-2265.
. Gallery hours are Thursday,
Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
October 9, 10,11and 12. Gallery
hours: Thurs., 5pm – 9pm; Fri,
12noon - 9pm; Sat. 11am – 8pm
and Sun, 11am– 6pm.
Suggested donation is $2.00 and
the exhibit will benefit
City-Meals-On-Wheels,
which funds 85 community-based
agencies that bring weekend,
holiday and emergency meals to
homebound elderly New Yorkers
who can no longer shop or cook
for themselves (100% of all
public donations go to the
preparation and delivery of
meals).
Produced by Legacy Fine Art
Productions, Come Together
is the largest collection of
Lennon’s works ever assembled
and an exhibit that has
travelled across the country and
around the world for 15 years,
garnering record crowds and
raising hundreds of thousands of
dollars for charity.
The exhibit features hand-signed
pieces and limited edition
prints, as well as serigraphs,
lithographs, copper etchings and
aqua tints, all of which are
available for sale. Lennon’s
inspiring and emotional sketches
are also in the permanent
collections of the New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art and the John
Lennon Museum in Japan. For
further information on Come
Together call (888)
ART-1969.
A musician, songwriter, poet,
artist and philosopher, John
Lennon will long be remembered
as one of the true visionaries
of the 20th century.
Before he was a Beatle, he was
an artist who attended the
renowned Liverpool School of Art
School and he continued to
chronicle his remarkable life
with wry, whimsical, line
drawings in pen, pencil, and
Japanese sumi ink. His style
was comprised of quick sketches,
free-hand drawings, caricatures
and illustrations that continue
to illuminate his keen sense of
observation, wit and profound
irony. Come Together
includes over 100 pieces from
1968 – 1980, encompassing the
final phase of Lennon’s Beatles
career, his years as a solo
artist, his activist and
creative partnership with wife
Yoko Ono, his five-year hiatus
in New York as a stay-at-home
dad, and his return to the music
scene in 1980, which was cruelly
cut short by his murder in
December of that year. John
Lennon’s message of peace, hope
and love still resonates
worldwide and is at the core of
his powerful and provocative
artwork. At the time of his
death, he had preserved several
hundred drawings that he
considered important