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Artist:
Jasper Johns, American, b. Augusta, Georgia, 1930  Search this
Medium:
Oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions:
54 1/8 × 41 3/8 in. (137.3 × 104.9 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1961
Provenance:
Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, by 13 June 1961
Harriet Peters, New York
Harold Diamond Gallery, New York, to 27 February 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 27 February 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History:
[GALERIE RIVE DROITE, Paris. "Jasper Johns," 13 June-12 July 1961 [no exh. cat. in file].
GREENWICH LIBRARY, Connecticut. "Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collects," 7 May-5 June 1967.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 988, color ill. p. 637.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Jasper Johns, A Retrospective Exhibition," 18 October 1977-22 January 1978, no. 73. TOUR: MUSEUM LUDWIG, Cologne, Germany, 10 February-26 March; CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 18 April-4 June; HAYWARD GALLERY, London, 21 June-30 July; SEIBU MUSEUM OF ART, Tokyo, 19 August-26 September; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 20 October-10 December.
MUSEO DEL PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES, Mexico City. "La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington" (Painting in the United States from Public Collections in Washington, DC; organized by the International Communication Agency, Washington, DC), 18 November 1980-4 January 1981, no. 84, ill.
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, Ohio State University, Columbus. "Art in Europe and America: The 1950s and 1960s," 17 February-22 April 1990, unnumbered checklist, ill. p. 12.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Los Angeles. "Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62," 6 December 1992-7 March 1993, p. 187. TOUR: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, 3 April-20 June; WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, 16 July-3 October.
STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART, Germany. "The Magic of Numbers," 1 February-19 May 1997, no. 3.3, ill. p. 77.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Peter Coffin: Here and There," 29 June-6 October 2013, no cat.
Published References:
RESTANY, PIERRE. "Jasper Johns and the Metaphysic of the Commonplace," Cimaise 8, no. 55 (September-October 1961), ill. p. 93 [color].
ROSENBLUM, ROBERT. "Les Oeuvres Récentes de Jasper Johns," XXe Siècle 24, no. 18 (February 1962), n.p., ill.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 705, ill. p. 637 [color].
UNSIGNED. "Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," Burlington Magazine CXVI/860 (November 1974), p. 702, fig. 136.
COURTHION, PIERRE. "Le Plus Grande Museé de Sculpture du Monde: La Collection Hirshhorn," XXe Siècle 45 (December 1975), p. 32.
BLESSING, MIRTA. "Culti Cosas," El Universal (? November 1980), p. 2.
UNSIGNED. "Exposicion: Pintura Actual de los Estados Unidos," El Sol de Mexico (4 November 1980), p. 6.
UNSIGNED. El Dia (10 November 1980), p. 20.
UNSIGNED. "Jasper Johns y Robert Rauschenberg: Dos Innovadores de los Cincuentas," El Sol de Mexico (18 November 1980), p. 1, ill.
BREMER, SENALO JUAN JOSE. "En el mutuo concimiento se basa el respeto profundo," El Universal (19 November 1980), p. 21, ill.
BROWN, MILTON W. One Hundred Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections in Washington, DC (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983), pp. 222-223, ill.
FRANCIS, RICHARD. Jasper Johns (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), ill. p. 45.
GOLOMB, SOLOMON W. "The Invincible Primes," The Sciences (March/April 1985), ill. p. 57.
BRITSCH, RALPH A. and TODD A. BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985), fig. 16-36.
ZELLMAN, MICHAEL DAVID. American Art Analog: Volume III, 1874-1930 (New York: Chelsea House, in association with American Art Analog, 1986), ill. p. 1045.
SPERANZA, FRANCESCO and ALBA ROSSI DELL'ACQUA. Il Linguaggio della Matematica, 2nd ed. (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1988), cover.
BOUDAILLE, GEORGES. Jasper Johns (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), color ill. 33, p. 55.
UNSIGNED. Contemporary Great Masters: Jasper Johns (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993), colorpl. 19.
UNSIGNED. Post-War and Contemporary (Evening Sale): Wednesday 13 November 2002 (New York: Christie's, 2002), ill. p. 130.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number:
66.2598
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School:
Pop Precursors
Data Source:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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