River, Rocks and Smoke 4/10/90 No. 17

1990

John Cage

Associated Names
John Cage

Artist, American, 1912 - 1992

This is a piece of tan paper covered with pale gray and yellow swirls and wisps. The shapes are light and undefined, like fog or smoke. At the top there are some pale horizontal lines of bare paper. In the lower left and right corners, there are small lines in red and blue.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on Bee #844 hot press 140 lb. rag paper prepared with smoke

  • Credit Line

    Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 179.71 × 121.29 cm (70 3/4 × 47 3/4 in.)
    framed: 198.76 × 136.84 × 7.62 cm (78 1/4 × 53 7/8 × 3 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.45.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York); William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, Dallas, TX; bequest to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2011

  • Kass, Ray. The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete Watercolors. Roanoke and New York, 2011: 112, pl. 72.

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