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we’d come out there with our Montauk.” son, Sean. We liked Montauk She remembered visiting because it was less commerwith her friends Mick and cial, and we loved going to the Bianca Jagger, when they beach.” were married back then, and (Coincidentally, I remember also Andy Warhol, Peter when Lennon and Ono ate at Beard and Dick Cavett, who Gosman’s restaurant that all lived in Montauk. Ono summer in Montauk — I waitalso recalled visiting her ed on them as a college stufriend and fellow artist Robert Wilson during the dent, and had to keep all the “Self-Portrait” 1990s, at some of his sumother waiters from bothering mer parties at the Water Mill Center. them during dinner.) Of her late husband’s upcoming art show in Ono laughed when I asked her about eating at Montauk restaurants. “We may have eaten Southampton, Ono said, “I think his art is at a few, but we were mostly macrobiotic,” she similar to his songs — it communicates said. “We also did some artwork out in directly with the people.”
Lennon and Ono drawing in their NYC apartment
Although both Ono and Lennon included social themes in their art, she said, “John’s theme was mostly about peace and love — he wanted to convey the message that the family and love is important, and translates into world peace.” She also recalled how her family used to gather in their kitchen, which was set up with a couch, TV and stereo — the gathering place in their apartment at the Dakota in New York. “John used to sit at the kitchen table and teach Sean how to draw, and he made many drawings for him,” she said. Some of those drawings, done during the last two years of Lennon’s life, entitled, “Real Love,” are in the upcoming show. They include animal-oriented children’s drawings of crabs, ducks, fish, frogs and pigeons. Other works in the show include some of the controversial “Bag-One” suite signed by Lennon in 1970, which were 14 drawings that he gave to Ono as a wedding gift. During the early ‘70s these pieces toured the world, and seven of them were considered so erotic that the police raided the exhibit in Chicago, London and Toronto. “We’ll have some of these for viewing and for sale in this upcoming show in Southampton,” said Siegel. Also in this show are selected new releases of Lennon’s work, including his most recent release, “United We Stand,” a simple sketch of Lennon’s and Ono’s faces together, encircled in a heart. There is also “Land of Milk and (continued on page 34)
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