Untitled (Grief Is Devastating)

Contemporary Art

1985

Larry Johnson
American, born 1959

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Larry Johnson
Title: Untitled (Grief Is Devastating)
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.: 1985
Medium: Ektacolor prints
Inscriptions: Edition 2/3
Dimensions: Left panel: 50.8 × 61 cm (20 × 24 1/16 in.); right panel: 61 × 50.8 cm (24 1/16 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams
Reference Number: Obj: 254886

Catherin Lord, CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), exh. cat. (Newport Harbor Museum/Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 1987), 40 (ill.), 71
Biennale di Venezi, XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte la Biennale di Venezia, exh. cat. (Venice: Alfieri Edizioni d’Arte, 1988), 298, cat. 2.
Lee Edelman, Russel Ferguson, and Esther Leslie, Larry Johnson, exh. cat. (Hammer Museum/Delmonico Books/Prestel Publishing, 2009), 16-17 (color ill), 18, 34, 113.

New York, 303 Gallery, James Casebere, Larry Johnson, Jeff Koons, Nov. 5–Dec. 1, 1985, no cat.
Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), May 6–June 27, 1987, no cat. no; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Jan. 24–Mar. 20, 1988.
XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, June 26–Sept. 25, 1988, cat. 2.
Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, Larry Johnson, June 21–Sept. 2009, no cat no.

The artist; sold through 303 Gallery, New York to Marvin (d. 2006) and Alice Kosmin, New York, 1988; sold to Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, 2013; sold to Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams, Chicago, 2020; offered as a promised gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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