Works from the Jordan Schnitzer Family FoundationPalm Springs Art Museum
November 21, 2026 – April 19, 2027
Palm Springs Art Museum presents The Grammar of Jim Dine: Works from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, a major exhibition bringing together close to 200 works spanning six decades of the artist's practice.
One of the largest exhibitions of Dine's work ever presented, The Grammar of Jim Dine traces the evolution of his distinctive visual language through painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture.
From tools and hearts to bathrobes, Pinocchio, and the Venus de Milo, familiar subjects are continually reimagined through shifts in material, scale, color, and technique.
Drawn from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, the exhibition includes ten monumental sculptures and works being shown in the United States for the first time.
Jim Dine will be in attendance at the Member Preview on Friday, November 20, joining Christine Vendredi, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Palm Springs Art Museum, and collector Jordan Schnitzer for a discussion about his work and artistic process.
Dine will create a large-scale original poem made with charcoal and paint stick written for the exhibition to accompany the sculpture, “walking to Boras,” bringing his ongoing creative practice directly into the exhibition.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to encounter this body of work together and to see how Dine's artistic vocabulary has evolved, expanded, and reinvented itself over more than sixty years.
In a statement accompanying the exhibition, Dine reflects on the extraordinary scope of the collection:
“I feel very privileged to be showing this body of work out here in the desert, but please know that it was all created not in a desert, but in the verdant vein of creativity coming from my left hand. My life in art has been very rich and full of variety and juice. I have worked my ass off for almost 90 years to make these objects. I thank Jordan Schnitzer and the Palm Springs Museum for making this happen.”
Exhibition Details
The Grammar of Jim Dine: Works from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
November 21, 2026 – April 19, 2027
Palm Springs Art Museum
All Palm Springs Art Museum members are invited to an exclusive Member Preview on November 20, 2026. The artist will be in attendance.
5:30–6:30 PM: VIP and Giving Circle Cocktail Hour
6:45–7:45 PM: Jim Dine in Conversation with Christine Vendredi and Jordan Schnitzer
7:45–8:45 PM: General Members Preview
Palm Springs Art Museum
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Artwork details
Jim Dine
Asleep with his Tools Jim Dreams, 2019
1 color woodcut in black on 5 panels, with handpainting mounted on dibond and aluminum stretchers with wood insert trim
Overall: 75 1/4 x 139 3/4 in / 191.14 x 354.97 cm
Image, each panel: 72 x 27 in / 182.88 x 68.58 cmJim Dine
The Field of the Cloth of Gold, 2025
Cast bronze with enamel one-shot paint (2nd version)
77 x 28 x 29 in / 195.58 x 71.12 x 73.66 cmJim Dine
work Christian work! (After Creeley), 1987
Oil on canvas with strips of wood
85 x 182 in / 215.90 x 462.28 cmJim Dine
The Waltz (Grunewald), 2023
Acrylic, copper tubes and objects on wooden panel
Overall: 152.76 x 15.75 x 86.61 in / 388 x 40 x 220 cm
2 panels: 59.84 x 76.38 in / 152 x 194 cm
Top panel (overlaps): 26.77 x 157.48 in / 68 x 400 cmJim Dine
Flowers, 2022
Cast bronze with patina
85 x 52 in / 215.90 x 132.08 cm
