Jasper Johns
The Seasons

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Artist Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)American, born 1930

Printer Shi Ji-hong(American, born China, 1953)American, born China, 1953

Print studio Universal Limited Art Editions, Ltd.(West Islip, New York)Bay Shore, New York

Publisher Universal Limited Art Editions, Ltd.(West Islip, New York)Bay Shore, New York

CultureAmerican

Titles

The Seasons

Date1990

Printed inWest Islip, New York, United States

Published inWest Islip, New York, United States

MediumEtching and aquatint, edition 50/50

DimensionsPlate (cruciform shaped plate): 43 3/8 × 38 1/2 in. (110.2 × 97.8 cm)
Sheet: 50 1/2 × 44 5/8 in. (128.3 × 113.3 cm)
Frame: 56 × 50 × 2 1/4 in. (142.2 × 127 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Blanton, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Blanton, Sr.

Object number90.425

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PRINTS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Singular and Plural: Recent Accessions, Post-War Drawings and Prints," MFAH, June 6 - August 8, 1992.

"The Trans Parent Thread: East Asian Philosophy in Contemporary Art," from June 8-July 28, 1991 @ The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery at The University of Houston, Houston, TX (LN:91.26).

"Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960-1990," Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, September 22-December 3, 1995; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, April 23-June 18, 1995; Wm. Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, January 23-April 2, 1996; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 10-August 4, 1996 (LN:95.8)

"Me. My. Self. Eye. ; Modern and Contemporary Self-Portraits from the MFAH Department of Prints and Drawings," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Lower Brown Corridor, May 17-September 20, 2010.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed on recto sheet, lower right: "J Johns/1990" Number on recto sheet, lower left with blindstamp: "LAE 50/50" (see accession sheet for drawing of LAE stamp)

Catalogue raisonnéULAE 249

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