id: 156949 accession number: 1993.109 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.109 updated: 2023-01-31 16:00:22.636000 Usuyuki, 1977–1978. Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930). Encaustic and collage on canvas; framed: 89.2 x 143.8 x 4.5 cm (35 1/8 x 56 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 86.4 x 45.7 cm (34 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1993.109 © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Usuyuki title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1977–1978 creation date earliest: 1977 creation date latest: 1978 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: encaustic and collage on canvas department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 89.2 x 143.8 x 4.5 cm (35 1/8 x 56 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 86.4 x 45.7 cm (34 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Stenciled in white paint lower left: Usuyuki; Stenciled in white paint lower right: J. Johns '77-'78 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Jasper Johns: A Retrospective opening date: 1996-10-16T00:00:00 Jasper Johns: A Retrospective . Museum of Modern Art, NY (October 16, 1996-January 14, 1997); Museum Ludwig (March 7-June 1, 1997); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (June 28-August 17, 1997). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). title: Jasper Johns/Edvard Munch opening date: 2016-06-18T00:00:00 Jasper Johns/Edvard Munch. Munch Museet, Olso, Norway (June 18-September 25, 2016); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (organizer) (November 19, 2016-February 20, 2017). title: Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth opening date: 2017-09-23T04:00:00 Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 23-December 10, 2017); The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (February 10-May 13, 2018). title: Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror opening date: 2021-09-29T04:00:00 Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (September 29, 2021-February 13, 2022) https://www.philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/jasper-johns-mindmirror. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The 36th Biennale Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (February 24-April 8, 1979). * Jasper Johns: Works Since 1974. Venice, Italy (June 26, 1988-September 30th, 1988); Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 23, 1988-January 1989). * Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: The 36th Biennale Exhibition of Contermporary American Painting, February 24th-April 8th, 1979, cat. no. 11.

Venice, Italy: Jasper Johns: Works Since 1974, June 26-September 30th, 1988 and Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 23, 1988-January 1989, cat. no. 6. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, purchased from the artist date: 1993 - footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Although the work may initially seem randomly designed, it is quite precisely ordered. The three panels are divided into 27 rectangular subsections. digital description: wall description: Usuyuki is a Japanese word meaning thin or light snow and, indeed, the painting's subtle colors and intricate patterns, with their suggestions of movement, recall the drift of falling snowflakes. Johns's method of painting at this time involved cutting strips of newspaper and covering them with a mixture of pigment and beeswax, called encaustic. After applying this mixture to the canvas, Johns pressed circular and rectangular cans into the surface to create visible imprints throughout the image. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Adds Two Significant Works of Art,” September 17, 1993, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3828 "1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218. page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 160; Mentioned: p. 161 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions to the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection,” August 26, 1994, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3900 Varnedoe, Kirk, and Roberta Bernstein. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 295 url: Ravenal, John B. Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Inspiration and Transformation. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Yale University Press in partnership with the Munch Museum, 2016. page number: 37 url: Bernstein, Roberta, Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Caitlin Sweeney and Betsy Stepina Zinn.Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture. 2017. page number: Reproduced: pp. 48-49, cat. #P200 url: Bernstein, Roberta, Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Caitlin Sweeney and Betsy Stepina Zinn. Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture. 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 166, cat #: P200 url: Donovan, Fiona. Jasper Johns: Pictures Within Pictures 1980-2015. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017. p. 54 page number: Reproduced: p.54, fig. 32 url: Bernstein,Roberta, ed. Jasper Johns. London, England; Los Angeles, California: Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Broad, 2017. p. 170-171 page number: Reproduced: P. 170-171 url: --- IMAGES