A dense mosaic of multicolored short striped rectangles arranged in interlocking clusters.

Prints

Cicada II

1979–1981

Medium
Color screenprint on paper
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 23 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (60.6 × 47.6 cm) Image (sight): 17 7/16 × 13 5/16 in. (44.3 × 33.8 cm)
Accession number
2018.298
Acquired
2018
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
29/50, 10 APs
Publication
Printed and published by Simca Print Artists
Department
collection

About this work

Jasper Johns, Cicada II, 1979–1981. Color screenprint on paper, sheet (sight): 23 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (60.6 × 47.6 cm) Image (sight): 17 7/16 × 13 5/16 in. (44.3 × 33.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2018.298. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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