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From Pop art pioneers, to participants in the collaborative heyday of the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s, to the latest generation of artists focused on new approaches to drawing and documentary photography, collectors Herb and Lenore Schorr have focused passionately on the art of their time. Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection features approximately 20 choice paintings, drawings, prints and photographs acquired by Herb Schorr, Princeton Graduate School Class of 1963, and his wife, Lenore, since they began to collect seriously in 1968-69. Artists in the exhibition include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Justine Kurland, Roy Lichtenstein, Nick Mauss, Elizabeth Murray, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, among others. The exhibition is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from June 27 through Sept. 20, 2015. Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015:

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