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1974

Jasper Johns

Artist, American, born 1930

Hiroshi Kawanishi

Printer, Japanese, active second half 20th century

Makoto Kawano

Printer, Japanese, active second half 20th century

Kenjiro Nonaka

Printer, Japanese, active second half 20th century

Takeshi Shimada

Printer, Japanese, active second half of 20th century

Simca Print Artists

Publisher

Concentric cobalt-blue and canary-yellow rings forming a target alternate against a cherry-red background in this vertical screenprint. The innermost circle is blue and is followed by two yellow and two more blue rings. The top fifth of the print is divided into rectangles: hunter green on our left, tangerine orange in the middle, and purple on our right. There are drips throughout the composition, which is surrounded by a wide white margin. A pencil inscription under the left corner of the printed image reads, “25/70.” The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, "J J '74."
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Getler/Pall Gallery, New York); Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1978

  • Field, Richard S. Jasper Johns: Prints 1970-1977. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1978, no.

1986

  • Williams, Reba and Dave Williams. "The Early History of the Screenprint." Print Quarterly. Vol. 3, no. 4 (1986): 290, no. 177.

1987

  • Williams, Reba and Dave Williams. American Screenprints. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design, New York, 1987: no. 1.

1991

  • Williams, Reba and Dave Williams. American Screenprints from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., New York, 1991: 3, no. 1.

1994

  • Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 147.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 25/70; lower right in graphite: J Johns 74

Markings

blind stamp: Simca Print Artists, Inc., New York

Wikidata ID

Q76552391

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