Untitled (Purple Strips)

Prints and Drawings

c. 1956-57

Ray Johnson
American, 1927-1995

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Ray Johnson
Title: Untitled (Purple Strips)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1956–1957
Medium: Collage of cut printed and blue wove papers, with opaque red and black watercolors and magenta paint, on laminated paper boards
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: wal-box-small- / drop on / S (crossed out) 71 - 3 x 3 1/4
Dimensions: 27.9 × 19.1 cm (11 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the William S. Wilson Collection of Ray Johnson
Reference Number: 2018.755

Given by the artist to William S. Wilson (1932–2016), New York; by descent to his estate; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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