Ex. 5 - Mind's I: Translation #12

1965

Jess

Painter, American, 1923 - 2004

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas on wood

  • Credit Line

    The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 53.3 x 66 cm (21 x 26 in.)
    framed: 58.1 x 71.1 cm (22 7/8 x 28 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.79.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. James Herndon, San Francisco; purchased 4 August 1997 through (Odyssia Gallery, New York) by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Jess, Odyssia Gallery, New York, 1971, no. 12, repro.

1977

  • Translations, Salvages, Paste-Ups by Jess, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Des Moines Art Center, 1977, no. 8, repro.

1993

  • Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951-1993, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1993-1994, no. 29, repro.

Inscriptions

upper left reverse: Jess / 65; upper right reverse: Ex. 5 - Mind's I / (Translation #12: "Convex Mirror" 5ii1887 Scientific American); center reverse: [quotation from Sir Charles Sherrington, Man On His Nature; transcription in NGA curatorial file]

Wikidata ID

Q20196377

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