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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M22715.B
People
John Cage, American (Los Angeles, CA 1912 - 1992 New York, NY)
Title
Diary: How To Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued 1968
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: SMS 4
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1968
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/254419

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
closed: 19 x 13.6 x 0.4 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
on wedge (H x W x D): 4.4 x 19.1 x 13.7 cm (1 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): printed on verso, l.r. edge: Copyright The Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[I.C. Editions, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, March 13, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© John Cage Trust
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
M22715.B
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 120-121, cat. 28, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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