John Cage
Day Five

Day Five
Day Five
Day Five
ArtistAmerican, 1912–1992
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Day Five
  • from the portfolio Seven Day Diary: Not Knowing
DateJanuary 6, 1978
Printed inOakland, California, United States
MediumHard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, sugar aquatint, photo etching, and found objects, edition 20/25
DimensionsPlate: 1 7/16 × 6 9/16 in. (3.7 × 16.7 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 15 15/16 in. (30.6 × 40.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
Object number78.57.5
Non exposé

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Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Line: Making the Mark,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 12, 2014–March 22, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in graphite, lower right corner
Inscribed in graphite, lower left corner: V 20/25
Verso, inscribed in gray ink, lower right corner: CROWN POINT PRESS / STEPHEN THOMAS
Signed in graphite, lower right corner
Watermark, bottom right corner: RIVES

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Day Six
John Cage
January 7, 1978
Hard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, sugar aquatint, photo etching, found objects, and color etching in black, blue, and brown, edition 20/25
78.57.6
Day Seven
John Cage
January 8, 1978
Hard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, sugar aquatint, photo etching, found objects, and color etching in black, gold, and blue, edition 20/25
78.57.7
Day Four
John Cage
January 5, 1978
Hard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, sugar aquatint, photo etching, edition 20/25
78.57.4
Day Three
John Cage
January 4, 1978
Hard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, and sugar aquatint, edition 20/25
78.57.3
Day Two
John Cage
January 3, 1978
Hard ground etching, drypoint, and soft ground etching, edition 20/25
78.57.2
Day One
John Cage
January 2, 1978
Hard ground etching and drypoint, edition 20/25
78.57.1
Untitled [3]
Martin Disler
1981
Photo etching, aquatint, sugar lift aquatint, soft ground etching, hard ground etching, drypoint, and scraping, edition I/X
96.18.3
Image received from curatorial
Walton Ford
2016
Aquatint in colors, etching with hard ground, soft ground, spit bite, sugar lift, and drypoint, printed in six colors on wove paper, edition 64/65
2018.396
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Kiki Smith
2006
Spit bite in colors, aquatint with flat bite, hard ground and soft ground etching, and drypoint, printed chine collé on Gampi paper, on wove paper, edition 8/20
2017.136
Untitled [5]
Martin Disler
1981
Photo etching, sugar lift aquatint, soft ground etching, and etching, edition I/X
96.18.5
Notes
Richmond Burton
1994
Etching with soft ground, drypoint, sugar lift and spitbite, edition 18/20
96.850
Under the X's
Richmond Burton
1994
Etching with soft ground, drypoint, sugar lift and spitbite, edition 18/20
96.849