New River Watercolors, Series IV, #1, 1988 (Primary Title)
New River Watercolors (1988) (Series Title)

John Cage, American, 1912 - 1992 (Artist)

April, 1988
American
Paintings
Works On Paper
watercolor on rag paper
United States
Sheet: 26 1/2 × 40 in. (67.31 × 101.6 cm)
Framed: 31 1/2 × 45 1/8 in. (80.01 × 114.62 cm)
90.186
Not on view
Signed and dated in pencil, lower right: "John Cage '88".
Gift of Ray Kass and the Mountain Lake Art Workshop, and the Horton Fund of the Virginia Tech Foundation
"Rural Avant Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience", Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University, August 23 - December 23, 2018; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, January 26 - March 24, 2019; Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, VA, November 19, 2019 - March 8, 2020.

John Cage: The Sight of Silence, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, February 15 – May 18, 2013

John Cage: Zen Ox Herding Pictures, Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, October 2, 2009 – April 7, 2010

Rolywholyover: A Circus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, September 12 – November 28, 1993; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, January 14 – April 3, 1994; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, April 29 – August 13, 1994

Late 20th Century Works on Paper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, February 18 – May 16, 1993

John Cage/New River Watercolors, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, October 25 – November 27, 1988; The Flossie Martin Art Gallery, Radford University, Radford, VA, January 8 – February 17, 1989; Roanoke Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, May 13 – July 16, 1989; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, April 14 – May 20, 1990
Collection of Ray Kass [1944- ], Mountain Lake Art Workshop, Blacksburg, Virginia; [1] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in October of 1990.

[1] Ray Kass is an artist and the founder and director of the Mountain Lake Art Workshop of the Virginia Tech Foundation, Blacksburg, VA, where John Cage produced the "New River Watercolors" series. See VMFA Curatorial file.
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