Josef Woodard wrote an article corresponding to John Lennon's traveling art show - a North American Tour with stops at Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Phoenix, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington D.C. and other major cities.

Woodard interviewed Yoko for insight into John Lennon's art, as it is viewed by serious art collectors and critics. Yoko told Woodard, "In the beginning, it was very hard. It was a real uphill climb, in the sense that many galleries were not interested. They were saying, 'Oh, we don't want to do something with a rock star's dabblings.' They didn't even bother to see the work. Now, his work is in the Museum of Modern Art. It has been in a one-man show in Bremen (Kunsthalle) museum, the most prestigious museum in the world for drawings. People are starting to understand that it's really legit. And yet, it took ten years to make it legit, in a way."

Woodard writes that Yoko felt what he called "a sympathetic twinge" from the cold reception and preconceived ideas that greeted her husband's art. "It was a kind of prejudice that they had about John's (art) which was similar to the kind of prejudice they had about my work, and so, of course, I know what's what. I just kept on plotting. Now, people really seem to understand that John was a good artist."

Yoko said John was dissatisfied about his reputation when he was a Beatle. "He was a kind of artistic, intellectual kind of guy. In the pop world, he was very successful, but by the time he was totally successful, I don't even think people understood them as musicians. They were just pop figures. So, there was a kind of dissatisfaction about his reputation."

Woodard mentioned in the article that John's later drawings create an atmosphere of domestic bliss, reflecting the warmth and emotional validation in family life with Yoko and then-infant son Sean.

"He had a very tumultuous kind of childhood," Yoko said. "He was trying to be a good father and husband in his first marriage, but it was a real make-it-to-the-top time, and that's hard for anybody. Usually a person wants to try to treasure a family situation. It was just a part of his life that was very dear to him."

Asked about her collaboration with Sean during the "Rising" recording and tour, Yoko told Woodard: "I really think that was a gift that was given to me, and I was very thankful. When I was pregnant, I wasn't thinking, 'OK, I'm going to have a guitarist.' He's now at a very important juncture in his life. He can go out there on his own, but he's not quite sure yet, especially because of his father. So there's a real hesitation there."

Regarding her continuing guardianship of Lennon's art, Yoko said, "I feel better that I'm doing something for his work. Because I'm an artist myself, I know that if it got out of hand and nobody took care of it, I would feel very bad. I feel responsible about this. I'm doing my best."