24.1999: Ale Cans

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

Permissions

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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

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