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Identification and Creation

Object Number
24.1999
People
Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)
Title
Ale Cans
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
July 29, 1978
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193367

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored ink on plastic
Dimensions
sight: 38.1 x 41.28 cm (15 x 16 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: ink, l.r.: J. Johns 29 July '78
  • label: backing board, paper, typed: Jasper Johns / Ale Cans 1978 / Ink on plastic / 16 1/8" x 17 1/4" / Signed: J. Johns 29 JULY '78 / Photograph: Pollitzer 38031 / Jasper Johns / 225 East Houston Street New York NY 10002
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed and typed: CR1 (D-88)
  • label: backing board, paper, printed: 20028 [two labels altogether, with Castelli's phone number and cataloguing information]
  • label: backing board, paper, printed and typed: [printed:] Leo Castelli 420 West B'way New York 10012 / [typed:] (D-88) Jasper Johns / Ale Cans, 1978 / Ink on plastic / 16 1/8 x 14 1/4 / Coll: Antoinette Castelli
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed
  • label: backing board, paper, printed and handwritten: #4948
  • inscription: back of frame, on two members, graphite: Johns [encircled:] 1 3390

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
24.1999
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), repr. p. 156 as fig. 34a, under cat. no. 34

Exhibition History

  • Jasper Johns: Drawings 1970-1980, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 01/10/1981 - 02/07/1981; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 02/21/1981 - 03/28/1981
  • 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

Verification Level

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