Cicada
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns

Cicada

22 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches
Jasper Johns

Cicada (ULAE 152), 1979

color screenprint on Kurotani Hosho paper from 16 screens
paper: 22 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches
image: 17 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches
edition: 100 with 10 AP's & 3 PP's
signed & dated in pencil "J Johns '79" lower right
numbered in pencil lower left
printed by Kenjiro Nonaka, Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada
published by Jasper Johns and Simca Print Artists, Inc., Tokyo 1979
© 2024 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Literature
Judith Goldman, Jasper Johns Prints 1977-1981, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA, 1981, n.p., Segal 18, another impression reproduced full page black and white.
Shigeo Chiba, Jasper Johns Prints Exhibition 1960–1989, Tokyo, 1990, Japan Art and Culture Association/Kokusai Geijutsu Bunka Shinkokai, n.p., plate 89, another impression reproduced.
Carlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021, another impression reproduced plate 42, pg. 297.
Elizabeth Armstrong, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, Walker Art Center, 1990, pgs. 52-53, another impression reproduced in full-page color.
Jennifer Roberts and Jennifer Quick, Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2012, another impression reproduced p. 66.

Exhibited
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective, May 19–Aug 19, 1986, another impression exhibited.
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Prints Exhibition 1960–1989, Traveled to The Seibu Department Store; Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Isetan Department Store, Niigata, Japan; Isetan Department Store, Urawa, Japan; Isetan Department Store, Matsudo, Japan; and Isetan Department Store, Shizuoka, Japan, another impression exhibited.
Walker Art Center, Minnesota, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, February 18-May 13, 1990, another impression exhibited.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, June 17-August 19, 1990, another impression exhibited.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Fransisco, San Francisco, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, September 15-November 18, 1990, another impression exhibited.
Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, December 14, 1990-March 10, 1991, another impression exhibited.
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, April 6-May 27, 1991, another impression exhibited.
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, June 22-August 18, 1991, another impression exhibited.
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, September 14-November 10, 1991, another impression exhibited.
Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Selected Museum Collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge

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