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Identification and Creation

Object Number
21.1999
People
Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)
Title
Study for "Racing Thoughts"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
August 1983
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193358

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink, pastel, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 55.88 x 75.57 cm (22 x 29 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: J Johns Aug 83 / RACING THOUGHTS
  • exhibition label: back of frame, paper, typed: Castelli loan 88[ ]
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed: Cat. no. 94
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed: Kat. no. 94/1
  • label: backing board, paper, printed: D-168
  • label: backing board, paper, printed: 20018 [two labels altogether, with Castelli's phone number and cataloguing information]
  • label: backing board, paper, printed and handwritten: [handwritten in blue ink:] Obra 10
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed: No. CR2 (D-168)
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed: Cat. no. 94
  • watermark: Fabriano / CMF

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Antoinette Castelli, New York, New York. Jean-Christophe Castelli, New York, New York.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Collection Jean-Christophe Castelli, Class of 1985
Copyright
© Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Number
21.1999
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Nan Rosenthal and Ruth E. Fine, The Drawings of Jasper Johns, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1990), no. 94, pp. 290-291, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • The Drawings of Jasper Johns from the Collection of Toiny Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 01/01/1987 - 02/15/1988; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 02/16/1988 - 03/20/1988
  • Celebrating Leo Castelli and Pop Art, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, 01/01/1988 - 12/31/1988
  • In Honor of Toiny Castelli: Drawings from the Toiny and Leo Castelli Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 04/01/1988 - 05/15/1988
  • Colección Leo Castelli, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 10/07/1988 - 01/08/1989
  • Modern Masters, Helsinki Art Exhibition Hall, Helsinki, 01/01/1989 - 12/31/1989
  • Jasper Johns Drawings and Prints from the Collection of Leo Castelli, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 09/10/1989 - 10/22/1989
  • The Drawings of Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 05/20/1990 - 07/29/1990; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 08/19/1990 - 10/28/1990; Hayward Gallery, London, 11/29/1990 - 02/03/1991; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/21/1991 - 04/01/1991
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007

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