The American photographer has released a new colouring book for art aficionados of all ages on the Museum of Modern Art's website.

The free colouring book is based on reformatted versions of Lawler's black-and-white tracing drawings, in which she revisits her photographs that examine how artworks are presented in museums, private collections, gallery backrooms and auction houses.

A selection of these photographs was shown in large-scale versions at MoMA in Lawler's 2017 exhibition "WHY PICTURES NOW," which was co-curated by Roxana Marcoci and Kelly Sidley.

The new colouring sheets feature seminal pieces by Lucio Fontana, On Kawara, John Baldessari and Jeff Koons, whose record-breaking "Rabbit" makes an appearance in Lawler's "(Bunny) Sculpture and Painting (traced)."

(Access the colouring book pages here.) 

Lawler collaborated with Canadian artist and children's book illustrator Jon Buller for her new artistic project, which arrives at a time when museums and cultural institutions across the world have closed their doors in reaction to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

"This gesture comes from the artist's interest in the way art can reach viewers beyond the museum and gallery system, and can playfully contribute to personal creative transformation," MoMA staff wrote on their website, also encouraging viewers to post and tag their coloured drawings #DrawingwithMoMA on social media.

The Museum of Modern Art is not the only cultural institution offering free colouring books to entertain art lovers stuck at home.

Earlier this March, the New York Academy of Medicine invited libraries and cultural institutions across the world to provide free colouring pages based on their collections.

More than 100 organisations took part in this year's instalment of "Color Our Collections," including the New York Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian, the University of Melbourne and Washington State Library.

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