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        "id": 160191,
        "accession_number": "1998.110",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Usuyuki, 1981. Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930). Color screenprint; sheet: 73.8 x 118.7 cm (29 1/16 x 46 3/4 in.); image: 69.9 x 115.3 cm (27 1/2 x 45 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1998.110. \u00a9  Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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        "title": "Usuyuki",
        "creation_date": "1981",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1981,
        "creation_date_latest": 1981,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male",
            "LGBTQ+ (after 1900)"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "color screenprint",
        "support_materials": [
            {
                "description": "Japanese laid paper",
                "watermarks": []
            }
        ],
        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Screenprint",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 73.8 x 118.7 cm (29 1/16 x 46 3/4 in.); Image: 69.9 x 115.3 cm (27 1/2 x 45 3/8 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.738,
                "width": 1.187
            },
            "image": {
                "height": 0.699,
                "width": 1.153
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        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": "\u00a9  Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "numbered 23/85, signed and dated 81 in graphite",
                "inscription_translation": null,
                "inscription_remark": null,
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            }
        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 188479,
                    "title": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints",
                    "description": "<i>From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000.  \"From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints.\"",
                    "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
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        "description": "The pattern of groups of parallel lines in varying directions, a design Johns once saw covering a passing car, appears in a group of paintings and prints entitled Usuyuki. In Japanese usuyuki means \"light snow\" or something that passes quickly, and the pale colors of the museum's 1977-78 Usuyuki painting (on view in gallery 239) and this print allude to something ephemeral. However, the works are extremely intricate. While the complex pattern of handrawn lines, which forms three triangles or polygons, creates an illusion of three dimensions, the underlying rectangular grid and the circular, brightly colored accents reinforce the flatness of the support. It is this spacial ambiguity that makes Usuyuki visually exciting and mentally stimulating and is characteristic of Johns's strongest work.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79981002"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cCleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs,\u201d October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4215"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \"The Printmaker's Art.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 40, no. 7 (September 2000): 8-9.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2000-07/page/n7/mode/2up"
            }
        ],
        "catalogue_raisonne": "Field; ULAE 216",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.110",
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        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
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        "athena_id": 160191,
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                "description": "Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930)",
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                "birth_year": "1930",
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        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1998-09-08T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1981,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1981",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:09:31.554000"
    }
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