Two framed handwritten sheets on a gray wall, one large sheet with sketches and notes.

Drawings

Water Music

1952

Medium
Pen and ink on paper; 10 parts with colophon
Dimensions
Sheet (Each): 11 × 17 in. (27.9 × 43.2 cm) Overall (Sight): 54 3/8 × 33 3/4 in. (138.1 × 85.7 cm)
Accession number
82.38a-k
Acquired
1982
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from an anonymous donor
Reproduction credit
©1960 by Henmar Press, Inc. C.F. Peters Corporation sole selling agent. All rights reserved. Used by kind permission.
Department
collection

About this work

John Cage, Water Music, 1952. Pen and ink on paper; 10 parts with colophon, sheet (Each): 11 × 17 in. (27.9 × 43.2 cm) Overall (Sight): 54 3/8 × 33 3/4 in. (138.1 × 85.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from an anonymous donor 82.38a-k. ©1960 by Henmar Press, Inc. C.F. Peters Corporation sole selling agent. All rights reserved. Used by kind permission.

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