Day Two from Seven Day Diary (Not Knowing)
1978
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View on museum website →Medium
etching, drypoint, and softground etching from a portfolio of seven etchings and drypoints on wove Rives paper
Dimensions
plate: 2.9 x 10.5 cm (1 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 30.5 x 43.2 cm (12 x 17 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1996.93.26.2
About the Artist
John Cage
John Cage (1912–1992), born in Los Angeles to inventor John Milton Cage Sr. and journalist Lucretia "Crete" Harvey, an amateur artist, initially explored painting during travels in Europe in 1930 but soon pivoted to music. His early visual pursuits were sparsely documented, yielding no surviving works, as feedback favored his compositions. He married artist Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff, a bookbind...