Also included are an assemblage of works by the artist’s graffiti peers including Todd James, FUTURA 2000, DONDI, SERVE and DAZE. “For KAWS, this collection functions as a personal reference ...

KAWS (born Brian Donnelly) has succeeded in leaping across the boundary between Pop art and a broader realm of just plain popular art. Like them, his oeuvre—as a graffiti writer turned painter ...

KAWS buys drawings by artists of every stripe, from Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, and Ed Ruscha to Susan Te Kahurangi King, Helen Rae, and William A. Hall, to sketchbooks by graffiti artists ...