id: 156949
accession number: 1993.109
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.109
updated: 2025-02-09 04:54:53.585000
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
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creation date: 1977–1978
creation date earliest: 1977
creation date latest: 1978
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creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright: © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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culture: America
technique: encaustic and collage on canvas
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930) - artist
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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.)
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inscription: Stenciled in white paint lower left: Usuyuki; Stenciled in white paint lower right: J. Johns '77-'78
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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.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The 36th Biennale Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (February 24-April 8, 1979). cat. no. 11.', 'opening_date': '1979-02-24T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Jasper Johns: Works Since 1974. Venice, Italy (June 26, 1988-September 30th, 1988); Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 23, 1988-January 1989). cat. no. 6.', 'opening_date': '1988-06-26T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, purchased from the artist
date: 1993 -
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Adds Two Significant Works of Art,” September 17, 1993, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Donovan, Fiona. Jasper Johns: Pictures Within Pictures 1980-2015. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017. p. 54
page number: Reproduced: p.54, fig. 32
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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
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