03/09/2026
You’re about to see two Bob Dylan artworks that haven’t seen the light of day in 12 years. Until this week, they had never been opened.
For over a decade, this pristine Train Tracks & Sunflowers set from Bob Dylan’s Drawn Blank Series has remained in its original presentation cases, stored within Wyecliffe’s private archive.
Still primary market. Never previously owned. Never hung. Both works hand-signed by Bob Dylan.
So, very carefully, we opened them.
With ‘Sound & Vision’ currently taking over one of our gallery spaces, bringing together seven decades of music and cultural history through contemporary art, it got us thinking about what else was hidden away in the Wyecliffe archive.
And few artists represent the meeting point between sound and vision quite like Bob Dylan.
One of the most influential musicians and songwriters of the last century, Dylan has also spent decades making visual art, and the story behind these particular works begins long before their 2014 release.
Between 1989 and 1992, while touring America, Europe and Asia, Dylan drew what he encountered along the way; people, interiors, landscapes, streets and the quieter moments of life on the road. The drawings were eventually published as Drawn Blank in 1994.
Dylan described what he was doing rather beautifully, creating “some kind of panoramic view of the world as I was seeing it at the time.”
Years later, he returned to those drawings in colour, and The Drawn Blank Series became one of the defining bodies of work in his career as a visual artist.
And Train Tracks became one of its most recognisable images; a subject Dylan would return to repeatedly in different colourways and editions.
This particular 2014 portfolio brings Train Tracks together with Sunflowers. Just 295 sets were produced, with matching edition numbers, each work housed in its own bespoke handmade presentation wallet before being encased together in the original Drawn Blank Series presentation box.
There’s something quite extraordinary about handling work by one of the most influential cultural figures of the last century and knowing that you’re seeing these particular pieces emerge from their cases for the very first time.
Once we’d finished filming, the gloves stayed on, everything went carefully back into its presentation cases, and the set returned to the Wyecliffe archive.
The next time it is opened could be for its first collector.
And if this has put you in the mood for more art inspired by the musicians and movements that have shaped our culture, Sound & Vision continues at Wyecliffe Galleries until 9 September.
📍 Wyecliffe Galleries, Weybridge
🎸 Sound & Vision | Until 9 September
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