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Bob Dylan
American, b. 1941

Bob Dylan is generally regarded as one of the world’s most influential and groundbreaking artists. In the
decades since he first burst into the public’s consciousness via New York City’s Greenwich Village folk music
scene in the early 1960s, Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records and amassed a singular body of
work that includes some of the greatest and most popular songs the world has ever known. He continues
to traverse the globe each year, performing more than 100 concerts annually in front of audiences who
embrace his new material with the same passion as his classic output.

During the last six decades he has released more than 50 albums and written in excess of 500 songs, some
of the most famous being ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ and ‘Like A Rolling Stone’.
His songs have been covered more than 6,000 times by artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix,
Guns N’ Roses, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, Pearl Jam, Neil Young,
Adele and U2.

Dylan’s contributions to worldwide culture have been recognised and honoured with many awards. He
received an honorary doctorate of music from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1970 and another from
the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 2004. President Clinton presented him with a Kennedy Center
Honor at the White House in 1997, recognising the excellence of his contribution to American culture.
Dylan’s song ‘Things Have Changed’ from the film Wonder Boys (2000) won him an Academy Award in
2001. In addition to winning eleven Grammy Awards in rock, folk and general categories, he has achieved
six entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame, which honours recordings of ‘qualitative or historical significance’ at
least 25 years old.

Dylan dates the origins of his work as a visual artist to the early 1960s. 1974, Dylan spent two seminal
months studying art with Norman Raeben, son of Sholem Aleichem. A book of 92 drawings titled Drawn
Blank followed in 1994, and exhibitions of reworked versions of these images were mounted at the
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Germany in 2007 and the following year at Halcyon Gallery in London.
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The Bob Dylan on Canvas exhibition at Halcyon Gallery marked a new phase of the artist’s career with his
first-ever paintings in acrylics. As this fresh medium opened up to Dylan during an intensive burst of artistic
activity, he completed a significant new group of some 50 paintings, The Brazil Series. In the subsequent
exhibition at Copenhagen’s Statens Museum for Kunst from September 2010 to April 2011, visitors saw
how Dylan had developed preliminary studies executed on tour in Brazil into richly coloured depictions
of countryside, cityscape and various characters including musicians, card players and troublemakers. A
further artistic landmark for Dylan was his first New York show in autumn 2011, when The Asia Series, which
reflected on his time spent in China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea, was exhibited.

During 2012, Dylan released his thirty-sixth studio album, Tempest, and was awarded America’s highest
civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by Barack Obama.

In February 2013 an exhibition of 23 new works on canvas, The New Orleans Series, opened at the Palazzo
Reale in Milan. In August 2013, Bob Dylan: Face Value opened at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The exhibition later toured to Copenhagen’s Museum of National History in 2014, the Butler Museum in
Youngstown, Ohio in 2015, to Kent State University Museum, Ohio, and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in
2016.

Mood Swings, a major exhibition of new work by Dylan, opened at Halcyon Gallery in November 2013.
Heralding the first public showing of the artist’s iron works – seven gates created from vintage iron and
other metal parts – the sculptures reveal the artist’s lifelong fascination with welding and metalwork. The
exhibition also included Side Tracks, a series of over 300 uniquely hand-embellished prints signed by the
artist, in which he revisits the evocative image Train Tracks from The Drawn Blank Series.

In October 2016 an official announcement by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy,
revealed that Dylan was to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This was the first time that the award
had been given to a musician. The following month, Dylan’s major exhibition The Beaten Path opened at
Halcyon Gallery. The exhibition featured a collection of drawings, watercolours and acrylic works on canvas,
depicting the artist’s view of American landscapes and urban scenes. The Beaten Path invites the viewer to
accompany Dylan on his travels as he criss-crosses the United States through the back streets, alleys and
country roads. Reminiscing about a landscape unpolluted by the ephemera of pop culture, fleeting snapshots
of America emerge from the works.

Mondo Scripto first opened at Halcyon Gallery in October 2018. The exhibition presented a selection of
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Bob Dylan’s most iconic songs, handwritten in pen on paper and accompanied by a corresponding drawing
in graphite. As Tom Piazza, a celebrated novelist and writer on American music, wrote in the introduction
to the exhibition catalogue, “Dylan’s restlessly creative mind is never wholly satisfied, and those familiar with
these songs will find surprise at many a new turn of phrase. The unexpected couplings of these works and
images offer a surprisingly intimate door into each song, adding dimension, delight and insight into the artist’s
relation to his own work”.

In 2019 a landmark retrospective exhibition, Retrospectrum, featuring Dylan’s artistic output to date opened
at MAM Shanghai, before beginning a tour that will cover Asia, Europe and the USA.

The exhibition, which later opened in Beijing at Today’s Art Museum in July 2020, re-examines The Drawn
Blank Series, The New Orleans Series, Mood Swings, The Beaten Path, and works from Mondo Scripto.
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Mondo Scripto
In this second release of hand-signed limited edition artworks from the Mondo Scripto collection, Dylan
continues the selection of his most renowned lyrics, each originally handwritten by him in pen on paper and
accompanied by an original pencil drawing. Mondo Scripto explores the work of a cultural icon who has been
inspiring audiences for the last six decades.

“He has made himself a prism through which the music, words, images and experiences that he has found
meaningful have refracted in endless variation and become wholly his, and wholly ours – the work of an artist
for the ages.” - Mondo Scripto, by Tom Piazza (2018)

Mondo Scripto offers a reimagined architecture of Dylan’s lyrics, translating them into visual representations of
themselves. A multisensory narrative that reaches his audience aurally and visually, this is Dylan the storyteller
at his best.

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It Ain't Me, Babe

Slipping the noose of expectation, whether romantic, artistic or societal, is an abiding theme in Dylan’s
lyrics. Here the voice directly addresses a lover who is ‘lookin’ for someone/Never weak but always strong’
and who will ‘protect you an’ defend you/Whether you are right or wrong’. The title provides the response,
coming down with the finality of a courtroom gavel. This first appeared in 1964 on Another Side Of Bob
Dylan, as the songwriter’s focus began to bear down forcefully on the power balance and dynamics of
emotional relationships.

First album release: Another Side Of Bob Dylan, 1964

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Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

Even as Dylan was beginning, in 1962, to write his powerful socially conscious songs such as ‘Masters Of
War’ and ‘Oxford Town’, he was penning equally original and enduring love songs. Foremost among these
may be this classic farewell to a lover who has wasted the singer’s ‘precious time’. The lyrics mix bitterness
and rue in equal measure, as the singer walks off down the road and out of range. Running underneath the
stoic surface, however, are vulnerability and pain that lend the words their deep poignancy.

First album release: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963

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Girl From The North Country

This song of longing for an absent love was written in 1962 and appeared on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – a
kind of companion piece to that record’s ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’, but with tenderness and regret
supplanting the other song’s bitterness and stoicism. It would be unmatched in its intense summoning of a
lost love until ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’, from the 1975 album Blood On The Tracks. As in that later song, the
lyrics address not the absent lover, but a friend who may come across her, thereby reinforcing the sense of
distance and sorrow.

First album release: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963

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Just Like A Woman

‘Nobody feels any pain’, the voice begins, but there is plenty of pain to go around in this evocation of a
world in which the woman in question does her best to camouflage the ‘little girl’ inside with a fog of
amphetamines, ribbons, bows and pearls. The lyrics accomplish an ingenious twist in the final stanza, when
the voice changes from third person (‘her’ ribbons and bows) and addresses the former lover directly.
‘When we meet again’, the speaker says, ‘Introduced as friends/Please don’t let on that you knew me
when/I was hungry and it was your world’. Tender, heartbreaking and unsparing.

First album release: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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I Want You
In an urban world somewhat reminiscent of Marcel Carne’s 1945 film Children of Paradise – part circus,
part Edwardian decadence – a soul adrift reaches out to a nameless love amid a gallery of grotesques. As
with many of the voices on Blonde On Blonde, where ‘I Want You’ appeared, the persona in this song is
an anthology of ambiguities and ambivalences, certain only of wanting some kind of connection with the
persona the lyrics address. He claims that he ‘wasn’t born to lose’ her, but from the evidence that seems
unlikely.

First album release: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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Subterranean Homesick Blues

Cloak-and-dagger 1960s paranoia to the Nth degree. The voice in this soliloquy is ‘on the pavement/
Thinking about the government’ and warning a nameless ‘kid’ about sinister forces abounding in a world of
wiretapping, plainclothes police and furtive characters in trench coats – a stacked deck in which ‘They keep
it all hid’. The lyrics, and the electric rock background to which they were set in the early-1965 recording,
resonated with young people who were beginning to question government policies and tactics as the Civil
Rights movement and American involvement in Vietnam started to reach boiling point.

First album release: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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Mondo Scripto Deluxe Boxed Set of 6 Editions.

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The Seventies book, ‘Lyrics: 1962-1985’, was published and ‘Biograph’, a five-
1970 Dylan left Woodstock and moved to MacDougal Street disc retrospective collection, was also released.
in New York City. In June he received an honorary doctorate of
music from Princeton University, New Jersey. Dylan’s collection 1986-1987 During these years, Dylan toured backed by Tom
of experimental writings from 1966, ‘Tarantula’, was finally Petty and the Heartbreakers. In 1987 he toured with backing
published in November. from the Grateful Dead, which led to the album ‘Dylan & the
Dead’ (1989). Dylan also starred in the movie ‘Hearts of Fire’
1971 George Harrison persuaded Dylan to appear at a benefit (1987) directed by Richard Marquand.
concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in New
York City in August 1971. 1988 In January, Dylan was inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame’, with an induction speech by Bruce Springsteen.
1972 In November, Dylan contributed to the soundtrack of In spring, Dylan joined Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and
the film ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’ (1973) directed by Sam George Harrison to form the light-hearted group The Traveling
Peckinpah. The soundtrack included ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ Wilburys. They released two well-received albums in 1988 and
which has subsequently been covered by over one hundred 1990. Late spring also saw the start of what came to be called
recording artists. Dylan also made his acting début in the film as the ‘Never Ending Tour’ with a small and evolving band.
a minor member of Billy’s gang.
The Nineties
Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota on 24th May 1941. 1965 Dylan released ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, which included 1973 A collection of Dylan’s lyrics and poetry, ‘Writings and 1990 In January, Dylan received the ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre
He grew up in the mining town of Hibbing and played in a the use of electric instruments and signified his departure from Drawings’, was published. des Arts et des Lettres’, the highest cultural award given by the
number of rock and roll bands as a high school student. In folk music towards rock and roll. In April, Dylan began a tour of French Government. He was also included in ‘Life’ magazine’s
1959 he enrolled at the University of Minneapolis but left after Britain and the hysteria surrounding him was captured in the 1974 In January, Dylan and The Band embarked on their first list of the hundred most influential Americans.
his freshman year. film documentary, ‘Don’t Look Back’ (1965), directed by the tour in eight years, playing thirty-nine shows in twenty-one
filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker. Dylan’s single ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ cities coast-to-coast in America. A live album documenting this 1991 In February, Dylan received a Grammy Award for
The Sixties was released on 20th July and became his first major hit. Five tour, ‘Before the Flood’, was released. Lifetime Achievement.
1961 In January, Dylan moved to New York City where he days later he performed at the Newport Folk Festival, backed
visited his idol Woody Guthrie in hospital and performed in by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, where he showcased his 1975 From autumn 1975 until spring 1976, Dylan toured 1992 Columbia records marked the 30th anniversary of
the folk clubs of Greenwich Village. Following a performance new electric sound and received a mixed response from the North America with the ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’, which Dylan’s first album with an all-star concert at Madison Square
at New York’s Gerde’s Folk City in September, Dylan received audience. In September, Dylan began touring backed by the included a changing entourage of artists such as the poet Allen Garden, New York City, on 16th October 1992. The concert
public recognition through a review by critic Robert Shelton Hawks – who later became known as The Band. Ginsberg, and singers Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. Footage of featured more than thirty artists including George Harrison,
in The New York Times. Dylan’s talents were brought to the the tour was used in the four-hour film, ‘Renaldo and Clara’, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton and Dylan himself.
attention of A&R producer John Hammond and in October he 1966 In April, Dylan began a tour of Australia and Europe, directed by Dylan. Released in 1978, the film met with a mixed
signed a contract with Columbia Records. which culminated in a raucous and notorious confrontation response from audience and critics. 1994 After failing to perform at the ‘Woodstock Festival’ in
between the singer and fans during a concert at the 1969, Dylan made a triumphant appearance at ‘Woodstock ‘94’.
1962 In March, Dylan released his first album, ‘Bob Dylan’. Manchester Free Trade Hall in Britain. On 29th July near 1976 In November, Dylan appeared in The Band’s ‘farewell’ ‘Drawn Blank’, a collection of ninety-two sketches and drawings
Woodstock, New York, Dylan crashed his motorcycle. Although concert, which was filmed by Martin Scorsese and released as created by Dylan while on a tour of America, Europe and Asia
1963 Dylan’s second album, ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’, the extent of his injuries was not known, he disappeared from the film ‘The Last Waltz’ in 1978. between 1989 and 1992, was published.
including songs like ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘Don’t Think Twice, public view for many months. He would not tour again for
It’s Alright’ helped establish him as a singer and songwriter. eight years. 1978 Dylan embarked on an extensive tour of New Zealand, 1997 Dylan played a concert before Pope John Paul II at the
He soon became an important figure in the national folk Australia, Europe, America and Japan. ‘World Eucharistic Conference’ in Bologna, Italy. In December,
movement. ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ was released by Peter, Paul and 1967 In spring, The Band moved to Woodstock to be closer President Bill Clinton presented him with a ‘Kennedy Center
Mary and reached number two in the American music charts in to Dylan and he recorded with them in the basement of their 1979 In the late 1970s, Dylan became deeply interested in Honor’ at the White House in Washington D.C.
July. In the same month, Dylan performed at the Newport Folk house. The tracks produced were widely bootlegged and only developing more spiritually inspired music based on his evolving 1998 Dylan picked up three Grammy Awards for his ‘Time Out
Festival. It was also during 1963 that Dylan became prominent legitimately released in 1975 as ‘The Basement Tapes’. studies of the Bible. Two albums rooted in Gospel Music – ‘Slow of Mind’ (1997) album, including ‘Album of the Year’; heralding a
in the civil rights movement, singing at protest rallies with Joan Train Coming’ and ‘Saved’ – were released in 1979 and 1980. return to form as a songwriter and performer.
Baez. On 28th August he sang at the March on Washington for 1968 On 20th January, Dylan made his first live appearance,
Jobs and Freedom, the civil rights rally at which Martin Luther following the accident, with The Band at a memorial concert The Eighties The New Millennium
King Jr. delivered his famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. for Woody Guthrie in New York City. 1982 Dylan was inducted into the ‘Songwriters Hall of Fame’ in 2000 In May, Dylan was awarded the prestigious ‘Polar Prize
March 1982. from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’. He also wrote
1964 Dylan felt increasingly constrained by the folk and protest 1969 In May, Dylan appeared on the first episode of Johnny and performed the song ‘Things Have Changed’ for the film
movement and his fourth album, ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan’, Cash’s new television show, singing several songs as duets with 1985 In July, Dylan contributed vocals for the all-star single, ‘We ‘Wonder Boys’ (2000), directed by Curtis Hanson, which
released in August 1964, showed a move away from protest Cash. Dylan rejected requests to perform at the ‘Woodstock Are The World’, in aid of African famine relief. On 13th July he won him a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award the
songs to ones of a more personal and poetic nature. Festival’ and instead topped the bill at the ‘Isle of Wight Rock appeared, backed by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, at the following year.
Festival’ on 31st August. Live Aid concert at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. His third
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2003 With producer/director Larry Charles, Dylan co-wrote their list of ‘Best Albums of the Decade’ with Bob Dylan’s ‘Love
and starred in the film ‘Masked and Anonymous’, which was And Theft’ coming in at Number 2.
released in 2003.
2010 On 13th February, Halcyon Gallery, London launched
2004 Dylan received an honorary doctorate of music from Dylan’s first ever exhibition of paintings on canvas.
St Andrews University, Scotland on 23rd June 2004. October In September of 2010, Dylan’s acrylic works on canvas were
saw the publication of the first volume of his three part displayed in a one-man exhibition at Denmark’s National
autobiography, ‘Chronicles: Volume One’, which spent nineteen Gallery, the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. The
weeks on ‘The New York Times’ best-seller list. Brazil Series was specifically created by Dylan for the exhibition.
On 18th October 2010, Columbia Records released Volume
2005 The film documentary, ‘No Direction Home’, directed 9 of his ‘Bootleg Series, The Witmark Demos.’ This comprised
by Martin Scorsese, was shown on BBC 2 in Britain and PBS 47 demo recordings of songs taped between 1962 and 1964
in America on 26th September 2005. Concentrating on the for Dylan’s earliest music publishers, and received universal
years between Dylan’s arrival in New York City in 1961 and his acclaim. In the same week, Sony Legacy released ‘Bob Dylan:
motorcycle crash in 1966, the film was an international success The Original Mono Recordings’, a box set which for the first
both with critics and fans. time presented Dylan’s eight earliest albums.
In November 2010, a major exhibition of selected limited
2006 Dylan’s forty-fourth album, ‘Modern Times’, released edition and original graphics from The Drawn Blank Series
in 2006, gave him his first American number one album in premiered in Tokyo.
thirty years and won a Grammy Award in 2007 for best
contemporary folk album. In spring, Dylan began his DJ career 2011 On 24th May, Dylan turned 70. The event was marked
hosting the weekly ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’ show for XM with numerous symposiums around the world. Dylan, ignoring
Satellite Radio in America and BBC Radio 2 in Britain. the hoopla, stuck to the basics and continued touring, playing
for the first time in Taiwan, China and Vietnam as well as a sold
2007 Released in August, the award-winning film, ‘I’m Not out European tour.
There’, written and directed by Todd Haynes, was inspired
by the life and music of Dylan. An exhibition entitled The 2012 Besides his usual touring schedule, Dylan completed BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE. iconic songs, handwritten in pen on paper and accompanied
Drawn Blank Series, which contained re-worked versions of work on his 36th studio album, ‘Tempest’, released on with a corresponding drawing in graphite, also on paper. As
Dylan’s sketches and drawings, opened in the autumn at the September 11th, 2012. On 29th May 2012, Bob Dylan received 2015 On February 3, Dylan released his thirty-sixth studio Tom Piazza, a celebrated novelist and writer on American
Kunstsammlungen Museum, in Chemnitz, Germany. The Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian album, SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT, a collection of American music, writes in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue,
honour. standard ballads, many popularized by Frank Sinatra. The album “Dylan’s restlessly creative mind is never wholly satisfied, and
2008 In April, Dylan received a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize was a critical and popular success around the world entering those familiar with these songs will find surprise at many a new
‘for his profound impact on popular music and American 2013 As well as embarking on his worldwide summer tour, the charts in the top ten in over nineteen countries. As Andy turn of phrase. The unexpected couplings of these works and
culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic ‘Americanarama’, Bob Dylan exhibited new works from his Gill, in the Independent wrote, the recordings “have a lingering, images offer a surprisingly intimate door into each song, adding
power’. A major exhibition of selected works from The Drawn New Orleans Series at the prestigious Palazzo Reale in Milan, languid charm, which… help to liberate the material from the dimension, delight and insight into the artist’s relation to his
Blank Series, together with new re-worked versions, premiered the Royal Palace that once held the city’s government, but now rusting manacles of big-band and cabaret mannerisms.” A few own work”.
at Halcyon Gallery in London in the summer, receiving huge hosts major exhibitions including artists Claude Monet and days later, Bob Dylan was honoured as the 25th MusiCares
critical acclaim. A selection of limited edition graphics from the Pablo Picasso. Person of the Year at a fundraiser in Los Angeles. The event was In 2019 a landmark retrospective exhibition, Retrospectrum,
exhibition were released in a select number of UK galleries the most successful fundraiser in MusiCares history. featuring Dylan’s artistic output to date opened at MAM
with many editions selling out immediately upon release. In November 2013, Bob Dylan’s iron works collection Mood Shanghai, before beginning a tour that will cover Asia, Europe
Swings launched in a major solo exhibition at Halcyon Gallery. 2016 From January until March, Face Value, a selection of and the USA.
2009 On 15th April, Dylan aired his 100th episode in the twelve large portraits, was exhibited at Kent State University
US of his ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’. On 28th April Dylan 2014 During 2014, Dylan again exhibited with Halcyon Gallery, Museum, Kent, Ohio, USA. In April, Bob Dylan: The New Orleans The exhibition, which later opened in Beijing at Today’s Art
released his 45th album ‘Together Through Life’ which débuted showing Revisionist Art and Side Tracks, a running series of over Series opened at New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Museum in July 2020, re-examines The Drawn Blank Series, The
at number one in the UK album charts, 38 years and five 300 prints, each uniquely hand-embellished by the artist. Here Louisiana, USA. Face Value later made its debut in Germany New Orleans Series, Mood Swings, The Beaten Path, and works
months after his last chart-topper ‘New Morning’ in 1970. This he revisits the evocative Train Tracks image from The Drawn for the first time in May, at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, in from Mondo Scripto.
broke the record for the longest gap between solo number Blank Series, re-colouring, re-configuring and re-imagining it, Chemnitz, Germany.
one albums in the UK. The album also went to number one revealing a flicker of his continuing journey, at once repetitive 2020 In June, Dylan released his 39th studio album, Rough and
in the US, as well as several other countries worldwide. On and ever-changing. In October of that year, Simon and Schuster In October 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Rowdy Ways. An international sensation, the album hit the Top
12th October Dylan launched his first ever Christmas album published the massive 960 page edition of Dylan’s LYRICS: Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the Ten in 15 countries, including #1 chart entries in the Germany,
– Christmas In The Heart – with all royalties being donated to SINCE 1962, edited by literary giant Christopher Ricks. The great American song tradition. Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland
The World Food Programme and Crisis UK; helping to fight book was an instant success, selling out of its initial run in and The United Kingdom. The Guardian called the album a
hunger worldwide by providing meals to the needy over the preorder. Later that year, Columbia Records released the 2018 Mondo Scripto opened at Halcyon Gallery in London. “testament to his eternal greatness,” while the LA Times
holiday season. On 17th December Newsweek announced eleventh chapter of The Bootleg Series, the highly anticipated, The exhibition presented a selection of Bob Dylan’s most dubbed it a “savage pulp noir masterpiece.”
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DISCOGRAPHY
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THE SIXTIES
Bob Dylan 19 March 1962
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 27 May 1963
The Times They Are A-Changin’ 10 February 1964
Another Side Of Bob Dylan 8 August 1964
Bringing It All Back Home 22 March 1965
Highway 61 Revisited 30 August 1965
Blonde On Blonde 16 May 1966
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits 27 March 1967
John Wesley Harding 27 December 1967
Nashville Skyline 9 April 1969

THE SEVENTIES
Self Portrait 8 June 1970
New Morning 21 October 1970
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 17 November 1971
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (soundtrack) 13 July 1973
Dylan 16 November 1973
Planet Waves 17 January 1974
Before The Flood 20 June 1974
Blood On The Tracks 20 January 1975
The Basement Tapes 1 July 1975
Desire 5 January 1976
Hard Rain 1 September 1976
Street Legal 15 June 1978
At Budokan 23 April 1979
Slow Train Coming 20 August 1979

THE EIGHTIES
Saved 19 June 1980
Shot Of Love 10 August 1981
Infidels 27 October 1983 Live 1964: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 30 March 2004
Real Live 29 November 1984 No Direction Home: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7 30 August 2005
Empire Burlesque 30 May 1985 The Best Of Bob Dylan 15 November 2005
Knocked Out Loaded 14 July 1986 Modern Times 29 August 2006
Dylan & The Dead 18 January 1988 Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 6 October 2008
Down In The Groove 19 May 1988 Together Through Life 29 April 2009
Oh Mercy 12 September 1989 Christmas In The Heart 13 October 2009

THE NINETIES THE CURRENT DECADE

Under The Red Sky 11 September 1990 The Witmark Demos: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9 19 October 2010
1961–1991: The Bootleg Series, Vols 1–3 26 March 1991 Tempest 11 September 2012
Good As I Been To You 3 November 1992 Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 27 August 2013
World Gone Wrong 26 October 1993 The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 4 November 2014
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 15 November 1994 Shadows In The Night 3 February 2015
MTV Unplugged 30 June 1995 The Cutting Edge: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 6 November 2015
Time Out Of Mind 30 September 1997 Fallen Angels 20 May 2016
Live 1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 13 October 1998 Triplicate 31 March 2017
Trouble No More 3 November 2017
THE NOUGHTIES Live 1962-1966 – Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections 27 July 2018
The Essential Bob Dylan 31 October 2000 More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 2 November 2018
Love And Theft 11 September 2001 The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings 17 June 2019
Live 1975: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 26 November 2002 Rough & Rowdy Ways 19 June 2020
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SELECTED 2019 Bob Dylan: A Collection of New Original Paintings

2018 Mondo Scripto, Halcyon Galler y, London
2017 The Beaten Path: The Silkscreen Collection, The Halcyon Galler y, London

EXHIBITIONS 2016 The Beaten Path, London Halcyon Galler y

2016 Bob Dylan: The New Orleans Series, The New Orleans Museum of Ar t, New Orleans, Louisiana
2016 Face Value, Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio
2016 Face Value, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
2015 Face Value, Butler Museum, Youngstown, Ohio
2014 Bob Dylan, CAMERIMAGE, Tumult Galler y, Toruń
2014 Face Value, Museum of National Histor y, Copenhagen
2013 Revisionist Ar t, Gagosian Galler y, New York
2013 Mood Swings, Halcyon Galler y, London
2013 Bob Dylan: Face Value, The National Por trait Galler y, London
2013 The New Orleans Series, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2011 The Asia Series, Gagosian Galler y, New York
2010 The Brazil Series, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2010 The Drawn Blank Series, Accademia Alber tina delle Belle Ar ti, Turin
2010 The Drawn Blank Series, Asahi Exhibition Center, Tokyo
2010 Bob Dylan on Canvas, Halcyon Galler y, London
2009 The Drawn Blank Series, Halcyon Galler y, London
2009 The Drawn Blank Series, Edinburgh
2008 The Drawn Blank Series , Halcyon Galler y, London
2007 The Drawn Blank Series, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany

SELECTED AWARDS
2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

2013 American Honorar y Member, American Academy of Ar ts and Letters
2012 US Presidential Medal of Freedom
2009 US National Medal of Ar ts
2008 Special Citation Pulitzer Prize
2007 Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for the Ar ts
2004 Honorar y Doctorate, University of St Andrew’s, Scotland
1997 Kennedy Center Honor
1970 Honorar y Doctorate, University of Princeton, New Jersey
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