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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.)
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

Estate of Robert Brownlee and William Jordan

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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