Jasper Johns
Cicada

Cicada

© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Cicada
Cicada
ArtistAmerican, born 1930
Print studioLos Angeles
PublisherLos Angeles
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cicada
Date1981
Printed inLos Angeles, California, United States
Published inLos Angeles, California, United States
MediumLithograph in colors, artist's proof 3/11
DimensionsSheet: 35 × 25 3/4 in. (88.9 × 65.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2005.178
Non exposé

Explore Further

Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryAcquisitions of the Last Five Years: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Upper Brown Pavilion, July 15, 2005 - October 15, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, lower left corner: "AP 3/11"

Marked in pencil, verso lower left: "JJ79-848"
Marked in pencil, lower right below image: "J Johns 81"
Stamped on verso lower left: "Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles / STONY JOHNS, INC. "

Gemini impressed mark in the lower right corner
Catalogue raisonnéULAE 219

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Cicada (II)
Jasper Johns
1981
Lithograph in colors, artist's proof 1/12
2005.176
Cicada
Jasper Johns
1979
Screenprint in colors on laid paper, artist's proof 1/10
2005.175
Cicada
Jasper Johns
1979–1981
Screenprint, artist's proof 1/10
2005.177
Land's End
Jasper Johns
1979
Etching and sugar-lift aquatint in nine colors on wove paper, artist's proof IV/X
2000.587
Land's End
Jasper Johns
1979
Lithograph, artist's proof III/XII
2000.422
Voice 2
Jasper Johns
1982
Lithograph in colors, hors commerce 10/11
2000.89
Untitled (Red, Yellow, Blue)
Jasper Johns
1981
Etching and aquatint, artist's proof 4/12
2001.270
Ventriloquist
Jasper Johns
1986
Lithograph in colors, trial proof 2/2
2000.243
Flag
Jasper Johns
1967, printed 1970
Lithograph in colors on brown-toned antique Italian wove paper, trial proof 2/2
99.178
iilaalée = car (goes by itself) + ii = by means of which + dáanniili = we parade
Wendy Red Star
2016
Lithograph in colors and inkjet prints, printed chine-collé, on wove paper, artist's proof 3/3, aside an edition of 20
2019.289
Sidi Ifni
Frank Stella
1973
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper, artist's proof 3/15
2021.191
Untitled (Secondaries with Black)
Jasper Johns
1991
Etching and aquatint in colors with scraping and burnishing on Japanese paper, variant trial proof
94.726