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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.94
People
Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)
Title
Wilderness I
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1963-1970
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/264861

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal, graphite wash and graphite with polyester resin moulded hand, string, paintbrush and wooden ruler on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 127 x 87.6 x 10.2 cm (50 x 34 1/2 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., graphite: J. Johns / 1963

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York]. McCrory Corporation, New York, New York, sold at [Christies, New York, New York], 3 May 1994, lot 58; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Copyright
© Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.94
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Shapiro, Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1984), repr. pl. 103, n.p.
  • Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns' Paintings and Sculptures, 1954-1974: "The Changing Focus of the Eye", U.M.I. Research Press (Ann Arbor, MI, 1985), pp.98-99, repr. pl. 42, n.p.
  • Nan Rosenthal and Ruth E. Fine, The Drawings of Jasper Johns, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1990), cat. no. 40, p. 168, repr. fig. 40b
  • Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns, Rizzoli (New York, 1992), fig. 3, n.p.
  • Contemporary Art, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, NY, May 3, 1994), lot 58, p. 124, repr. (color) p. 125
  • Christine Mehring and Pamela Lee, Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1997), cat. no. 31, p. 84, repr. (color) p. 85
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2002-2003 (Cambridge, MA, 2004), repr. p. 22
  • Amy Eshoo, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2008), p. 153, p. 129 (repr.)
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 231, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Jasper Johns Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 01/10/1970 - 01/31/1970
  • Drawing is another kind of language: Recent Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/12/1997 - 02/22/1998; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 09/04/1998 - 11/15/1998; Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Ahlen, 12/06/1998 - 01/31/1999; Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, 02/19/1999 - 04/25/1999; Fonds régional d'art contemporain/Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 05/21/1999 - 08/15/1999; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 09/26/1999 - 11/14/1999; Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 01/07/2000 - 03/12/2000; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 09/21/2000 - 12/10/2000; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 04/20/2001 - 06/10/2001
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/22/2016 - 10/03/2016

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