American (Long Beach, CA 1923 - 2004 San Francisco, CA)
A Paranoic Portrait of Robert Creeley, 1955
Drawing
American
, 20th century
Paper collage ("paste-up"), mounted on brown paper
including mount: 51 x 40.7 cm (20 1/16 x 16 in.)
collage: 42 x 34.5 cm (16 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
collage: 42 x 34.5 cm (16 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
, 2007.27
Department of Drawings
, Marks
signed: mount, l.r., graphite: Jess / '55
inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: A Paranoic Portrait of Robert Creeley
Bibliography
Robert Duncan, Paste-Ups by Jess, brochure, San Francisco Museum of Art (San Francisco, 1968), cat. no. 17
Dallas Museum of Art, Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, exh. cat., E. P. Dutton & and Co. (New York, 1974), checklist no. 24, fig. 9
Lisa Phillips, Beat Culture and the New America,1950-1965, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 1995), p. 272, repr. p. 111 (color)
Ingrid Schaffner, Jess: To and From the Printed Page, exh. cat., Independent Curators International (New York, 2007), p. 28, fig. 19
Dallas Museum of Art, Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, exh. cat., E. P. Dutton & and Co. (New York, 1974), checklist no. 24, fig. 9
Lisa Phillips, Beat Culture and the New America,1950-1965, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 1995), p. 272, repr. p. 111 (color)
Ingrid Schaffner, Jess: To and From the Printed Page, exh. cat., Independent Curators International (New York, 2007), p. 28, fig. 19
Exhibition History
Paste-Ups by Jess, San Francisco Museum of Art, 05/31/1968 - 06/03/1968, 17
On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945-1962, San Francisco Museum of Art, 08/08/1968 - 09/08/1968
Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 11/20/1974 - 12/29/1974, 24; San Francisco Museum of Art, 01/31/1975 - 03/23/1975, 24; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 04/23/1975 - 06/01/1975, 24
Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/09/1995 - 02/04/1996; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 06/02/1996 - 09/15/1996; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 10/05/1996 - 12/29/1996