A tall broom hangs vertically with labeled parts and sketchy stains on a textured background.

Prints

Fool’s House—Black State

1972

Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 43 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (110.8 × 65.4 cm) Image (sight): 43 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (110.8 × 65.4 cm)
Accession number
2015.259
Acquired
2015
Credit line
Gift of Stephen Dull
Reproduction credit
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
12/18
Publication
Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.
Department
collection

About this work

Jasper Johns, Fool’s House—Black State, 1972. Lithograph, sheet (sight): 43 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (110.8 × 65.4 cm) Image (sight): 43 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (110.8 × 65.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Stephen Dull 2015.259. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Visual description

A charcoal broom on an inky background is suspended above a table, stretcher and mug; each object respectively labeled in cursive script. The fragmented block letters spelling "Fool's House" at the top.

Exhibitions featuring the artist

Exhibitions in the Whitney's archive featuring any of the artists listed for this work. Artwork-level exhibition history is not published by the museum; the list below is artist-level.