Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
Print of white field with patches of black lines and rectangle with denser black lines

The image for this print is small, so some details are hard to discern. The print is divided into four equal quadrants. The top left quadrant is full of dense black hatching. The remaining three quadrants have small patches of black hatching, echoing the fill of the upper right section. Two faint equally-sized circles are evenly spaced on each side of the print.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M23424
People
Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)
Title
Cancelled plate for Hatching (front endpaper)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Foirades/Fizzles
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1978
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/263582

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Aquatint and drypoint on four separate "cancelled" plates on white, machine wove paper
Technique
Aquatint and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 76.5 x 105.7 cm (30 1/8 x 41 5/8 in.)
each platemark (four plates total): 29.2 x 46.5 cm (11 1/2 x 18 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in graphite: 2/3 J. Johns '78

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Petersburg Press, New York and London], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, December 3, 1996.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
cancelation proof
Edition
2/3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund and Gift of Paul Cornwall-Jones in honor of James Cuno, in his undertaking of the exhibition "Foirades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns," 1987
Copyright
© Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
M23424
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Descriptions

Description
with masterprinter Aldo Crommelynck at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris

Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 91, ill.
  • Jennifer Roberts and Jennifer Quick, Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 89, fig. 19

Exhibition History

Verification Level

This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu