Art Institute of Chicago

Perilous Night

Jasper Johns · 1982

Provenance

Ownership history

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Chicago, Carl Solway Gallery, Chicago International Art Exposition, "A Tribute to John Cage," May 7-12, 1987, cat. 18 (color ill.).
United States Pavillion, Venice Biennale, "Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974," June 26-Sept. 25, 1988, cat. 16.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974," Oct. 23, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989, cat. 18, p. 68 (ill.).
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, "Dancers on a Plane: Cage, Cunningham, Johns," Oct. 30-Dec. 2, 1989, cat. 14 (color ill.); also Liverpool, Tate, Jan. 23-Mar. 25, 1990.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Drawings of Jasper Johns," May 20-July 29, 1990, cat. 89 p. 281 (color ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Jasper Johns," Oct. 20, 1996-Jan. 21, 1997, cat. 190, p. 326 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," Mar. 24-Sept. 13, 2009, no cat.
Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror", September 29, 2021 - February 13, 2022, p. 227, 242 (ill), cat. by Carlos Basualdo and Scott Rothkopf, et. al.

Literature

David Shapiro, Jasper Johns: Drawings, 1954-1984 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984), pp. 13, 19, 23-24, 43-45, 47, and 57-58, pl. 147.
John Cage, "On Collaboration in Art: A Conversation with David Shapiro," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 10 (Autumn 1985), pp. 109-10 (ill.).
John Russell, "After the Crosshatch: Johns in Philadelphia," New York Times (Oct. 24, 1988), p. C18.
Jill Johnston, "Jasper Johns' Artful Dodging," Artnews 87:9 (Nov. 1988), p. 159 (color ill.).
Andrea C. Papadakis (editor), Art and Design: Aspects of Modern Art (London, 1989), p. 75 (color ill.).
James Cuno, "Reading the Seasons," in Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1990), p. 86.
Adrian Searle, "Take a Skull; Cover It with Paint," Artscribe International, 80 (Mar.-Apr. 1990), p. 10 (color ill.).
John Russell, "The Drawings of Jasper Johns: Delight Tempered by Challenge," New York Times (May 21, 1990), p. C11.
Dawn Elizabeth Marar, "Jasper Johns Drawings at the National Gallery," Art Times 6:11 (July 1990), p. 9.
Robert Bernstein, "Jasper Johns's The Season's: Records of Time," in Jasper John's: The Seasons, Prints and Related Works (New York: Brooke Alexander Editions, 1992), pp. 10 and 12, fig. 2.
Robert Staltonstall Mattison, "Jasper Johns," in Masterworks in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection (New York: Hudson Hills, 1995), p. 45.
Jill Johnston, Jasper Johns: Privileged Information (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996), pp. 106, 125, and 251.

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