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

1965

Jess

Associated Names
Jess

Painter, American, 1923 - 2004

This painting features several objects on a low table. Three books are stacked, with two standing upright and one placed flat horizontally on top of them. On the topmost book is a small blue vase full of flowers, and on the table next to the books are two lit red candles. There is a colorful disc hanging on the wall to the right, seen from the side, and in the upper left corner is an outline of the brow and eye of a human in profile. A dotted line travels from left to right, connecting the eye to the disc hanging across from it, and then the line continues in the other direction to the books on the table. The background is thickly painted in different colorful sections that appear to be textured, with small lumps protruding from the surface. The colors include several shades of brown and green, along with orange, yellow, pale pink, and light teal.
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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 Number

    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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