Jasper Johns

Cicada II
1979–1981

A colorful abstract artwork featuring a dense pattern of short, multicolored strokes resembling sticks or rods laid out in a haphazard, overlapping fashion on a white background. The colors include red, yellow, blue, green, purple, and orange. The paper has a rough, uneven edge, and there is a signature at the bottom right corner.
A colorful abstract artwork featuring a dense pattern of short, multicolored strokes resembling sticks or rods laid out in a haphazard, overlapping fashion on a white background. The colors include red, yellow, blue, green, purple, and orange. The paper has a rough, uneven edge, and there is a signature at the bottom right corner.

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Date
1979–1981

Classification
Prints

Medium
Color screenprint on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 23 7/8 × 18 3/4in. (60.6 × 47.6 cm) Image (sight): 17 7/16 × 13 5/16in. (44.3 × 33.8 cm)

Accession number
2018.298

Edition
29/50, 10 APs

Publication
Printed and published by Simca Print Artists

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/37815

Jasper Johns
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