Dense grid of multicolored short diagonal stripes forming overlapping geometric patches on a pale background.

Prints

Cicada

1979

Medium
Color screenprint on paper
Dimensions
Sheet (sight, irregular): 22 × 18 1/8 in. (55.9 × 46 cm) Plate (sight, irregular): 17 5/8 × 13 1/2 in. (44.8 × 34.3 cm)
Accession number
2024.152
Acquired
2024
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
68/100, 10 APs, 3 PPs
Department
collection

About this work

Jasper Johns, Cicada, 1979. Color screenprint on paper, sheet (sight, irregular): 22 × 18 1/8 in. (55.9 × 46 cm) Plate (sight, irregular): 17 5/8 × 13 1/2 in. (44.8 × 34.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.152. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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