Cooperstown, N.Y. — Bob Dylan is an undeniable icon — a Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter whose musical appeal spans generations.
But the talented folk and rock musician is also accomplished in another creative field: Visual arts.
Dylan started sketching scenes from the road during the early years of his “Never Ending Tour”. And this summer, some of those remastered images will be on display in Upstate New York.
Starting next week, the Fenimore Art Museum in charming Cooperstown will feature “Bob Dylan Remastered: Drawings from the Road” in its gallery. The exhibit will be on display from May 25 through Sept. 15.
“This exhibition allows everyone, including Dylan’s fans, to experience another aspect of the range of talents possessed by this music legend,” said Chris Rossi, Fenimore’s director of exhibitions.
The rock star’s original pencil and charcoal drawings were split into three collections. Dylan then added watercolor and gouache paint to digitally enlarged sketches, the museum said.
The result was a new edition called “The Drawn Blank Series” — the focus of Fenimore’s new exhibit, the museum said.
The Fenimore Art Museum is at 5798 State Highway 80 in Cooperstown. Admission is free for visitors 19 and under; $17.50 for adults between 20 to 64; and $12.50 for visitors 65 and older.
More information — including Fenimore’s hours — is available on the museum’s website.
Along with his art, Dylan himself is set to visit Upstate New York this summer and fall.
Dylan is touring with Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Festival. The star-packed festival is set to perform at Syracuse’s Empower FCU Amphitheater; the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts; and the Darien Lake Amphitheater.