id: 151382 accession number: 1983.219.3 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.219.3 updated: 2023-01-19 15:15:06.406000 Savarin Suite: Savarin 3 (Red), 1978. Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions. Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1983.219.3 © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Savarin 3 (Red) title in original language: series: Savarin Suite series in original language: creation date: 1978 creation date earliest: 1978 creation date latest: 1978 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Field 193; ULAE 193 --- CREATORS * Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930) - artist * Universal Limited Art Editions - printer and publisher --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Printing in Color opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00 Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985). title: A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland opening date: 2019-05-05T04:00:00 A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Fendrick Gallery, Washington DC and New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1983 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1983- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Nearly two decades before making this print, Jasper Johns created a sculpture with the same image of paintbrushes in a Savarin coffee can. digital description: Since 1960 Jasper Johns has frequently depicted a Savarin coffee can filled with his paintbrushes, a reference to his studio practice. The image is typical of Johns’s work, which features everyday objects imbued with meaning through his handling of materials. By expressively layering lithographic ink or using his own fingerprints as a compositional element, Johns made his presence evident throughout the series. These personal connections to the artist’s practice suggest that the image may function as a symbolic self-portrait. wall description: Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) Savarin 3 (Red), 1978 Lithograph, edition 14/40 Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland 1983.219.3 The image of a Savarin coffee can filled with paintbrushes is one Jasper Johns has used in numerous prints and drawings, but his first piece depicting this subject was a painted bronze sculpture cast in 1960 that reproduced the actual can and brushes he was using at the time in his studio. Since then, he has incorporated the image in numerous prints and drawings, and it acts as a kind of surrogate self-portrait of the artist. It also reflects the theme of the artist in his studio, an important subject for 20th-century artists from Pablo Picasso to Roy Lichtenstein. A related drawing of a Savarin can is currently on view in the North Gallery exhibition Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
Savarin 3 (Red) only page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 359 url: --- IMAGES