John Cage
Day Six

Day Six
Day Six
Day Six
ArtistAmerican, 1912–1992
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Day Six
  • from the portfolio Seven Day Diary: Not Knowing
DateJanuary 7, 1978
Printed inOakland, California, United States
MediumHard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, sugar aquatint, photo etching, found objects, and color etching in black, blue, and brown, edition 20/25
DimensionsPlate: 7 1/8 × 5 3/4 in. (18.1 × 14.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 16 7/8 in. (30.6 × 42.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
Object number78.57.6
Non exposé

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Hard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, sugar aquatint, photo etching, edition 20/25
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Day Three
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Hard ground etching, drypoint, soft ground etching, and sugar aquatint, edition 20/25
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Day Two
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January 3, 1978
Hard ground etching, drypoint, and soft ground etching, edition 20/25
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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
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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
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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
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Untitled [3]
John Baldessari
1982
Photoetching, aquatint, soft ground etching, and sugar lift aquatint in black and brown, with scraping, edition 9/35
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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