Gray Alphabets, 1968

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in grays on Special Rives wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 151.8 x 106.4 cm (59 3/4 x 41 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund and Special Friends of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

ULAE, no. 057

Accession Number

2005.153.43

Artists / Makers

Jasper Johns (artist) American, born 1930

Charles Ritt (printer) American, active late 20th century

Bruce Lowney (printer) American, active late 20th century

Kenneth Tyler (printer) American, born 1931

Gemini G.E.L. (publisher)

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: J Johns / '68; lower left edge in graphite: Color Trial Proof 4B (1st, 3rd, 4th plates); lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 68-199

Marks and Labels

Provenance

the artist, Sharon, Connecticut; acquired 2005 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Johns, Jasper

Bibliography

1966: Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 97.

1970: Field, Richard S. Jasper Johns: Prints 1960-1970. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, no. 114.

1994: Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 57.

2011: Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 26.11. http://www.nga.gov/gemini