A black ink and graphite drawing of vertical lines and notations.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The drawing shows a series of lines and notations bound at the top and bottom by a series of vertical lines. The top has two sets of five lines with notations, the bottom has nine lines, intersected by six horizontal lines. There are four short sets of five vertical lines with notations, on the right side. They are labeled “AD,” “AG,” “AF,” and “AB.” A separate figure of five short lines with vertical rectangles at the top and bottom is labeled “E.” Two sets of five vertical lines is on the left, it is long and reaches past the center point of the drawing. It have roughly four drawn wavy lines across the lines from one end to the other.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.98
People
John Cage, American (Los Angeles, CA 1912 - 1992 New York, NY)
Title
Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Solo for Piano
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1957-1958
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/184597

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on cream translucent vellum paper
Dimensions
sight: 27.7 x 43 cm (10 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: verso of frame backing board, left center, paper: The Serial Attitude
    September 20, 1997 - January 4, 1998
    John Cage
    Concert Piano and Orchestra, Solo for Piano, 1957-58
    Ink and pencil on tracing paper
    11 x 17 unframed; 19 1/4 x 26 1/4 x 3/4 framed
    Collection of Werner H. and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky
    Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
    Andover, MA 01810 Tel: (978) 749-4020 Fax: (978) 749-4025

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Cage, gift; to Bob Benson, New York, New York; to Sigrid Freundorfer, New York, New York. Kasumi Sonoyama, New York, New York. Susan Lorence, New York, New York, sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York, 1995, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

NOTE: Provenance information from curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Copyright
© John Cage Trust
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.98
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jock Reynolds and Annetta Massie, The Serial Attitude, exh. cat., Wexner Center for the Arts and Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA and Columbus, OH, 1998), p. 13
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2000-2001 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), repr. p. 11
  • Amy Eshoo, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2008), p. 151

Exhibition History

  • The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 09/20/1997 - 01/04/1998; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 05/09/1998 - 08/12/1998
  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/20/2022 - 04/24/2023

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