[Untitled]
Description: design of announcement for a recital by William Masselos, collage of
newspaper clippings, text in various typefaces and a photograph of Masselos, 43
x 27 cm
Date: 1952
Sources: present location unknown
Literature: none.
[Untitled]
Description: drawing, ink on paper, size unknown
Date: 1954
Sources: New York, estate of Earle Brown
Publication: in Kostelanetz 1970d, illustration 22
Literature: Kostelanetz 1991.
[Untitled]
Description: designs (for advertisments etc.) made while employed by Jack Lenor
Larsen, Inc. (sizes unknown)
Date: 1956-1958
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 8 folder 6-15
Publication: some facsimiles in Kostelanetz 1970d, illustrations 27-28.
[Untitled]
Description: film [contribution] for TV show Gateway # 7
Duration 30 minutes
Date: circa 1967
First broadcast: October 18, 1967
Sources: present location unknown.
[Untitled]
Description:
contribution to Museum of Drawers,
compiled by Herbert Distel
Date: 1970-1977
Literature: Ginneken 1981.
[Untitled]
Description: design for Diary: How to Improve
the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
Date: 1974
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1974DESIGN.
[Untitled]
Description: drawing [self-portrait], size unknown
Date: 1976 or earlier
Publication: facsimile in Britton, B. 1976, 152.
[Untitled]
Description: polaroid picture of Richard Hamilton
Date: 1977 or earlier
Publication: in Hamilton, R. 1977.
[Untitled]
Description: color lithograph, 60 x 90 cm
Date: 1978
Sources: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press.
[Untitled]
Description: cover drawing for Sounday program
Date: 1977 or 1978
Publication: cover of Benoist 1978.
[Untitled]
Description: drawing, size unknown
Note: made with Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson
Date: Summer 1982, with Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson
Publication: in John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Virgil Thomson, Party Pieces. New York [etc.]: Peters,
1982, inner back cover (Peters; 66500).
[Untitled]
Description: six drawings, on separate sheets, with accompanying instructions
written on an envelope for combining them
Date: 1982, instructions written June 24, 1982
Dedication: for Pierre Lartigue
Publication: LÕavant-sc¸ne: ballet/danse
no. 10 (September-October), 72.
[Untitled]
Description: cover drawing for Mode 1-2 (records)
Date: 1984
Publication: as cover for records, Mode 1-2.
[Untitled]
Description: installation [empty railway container] for the Biennale de Paris
Date: before March 21, 1985
Shown: March 21-May 20, 1985
Literature: Declercq 1985.
[Untitled]
Description: cover drawing for first issue of journal, ērtics
Date: July 1985
Publication: ērtics no. 1
(September-October), 1
[Untitled]
Description: cover graphic for the long-playing record Wergo WER 60151, 1986
[possibly part of Eninka, Fire, HV, Mesostics: Earth, Air, Fire, Water or
Ryoku]
Date: before or during 1986
Publication: as cover graphic to the long-playing record Wergo WER 60151, 1986.
[Untitled]
Description: cover drawing for Rossum 1988
Date: 1988.
[Untitled]
Description: drawing for announcement of exhibition and installation in the
Espai Poblenou in Barcelona, January 16-late April 1991
Date: late 1990.
[Untitled]
Description: installation at the Mattress Factory in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date: 1991?
9 Stones
Description: aquatint on smoked paper, 46 x 58 cm, in an edition of 20 with 3 artist's proofs
Date: 1989 in San Francisco, California, Crown Point Press
9 Stones 2
Description: aquatint on smoked paper, 46 x 58 cm, in an edition of 20 with at least 1 artistÕs proof
Date: 1989 in San Francisco, California, Crown Point Press.
10 Stones
Description: twenty aquatints on smoked paper, 46 x 58 cm, in an edition of 20, with at least 2 artist's proofs, printed by Marcia Bartholme at Crown Point Press
Date: 1989.
10 Stones 2
Description: twenty aquatints on smoked paper, 58 x 46 cm, printed by Marcia Bartholme at Crown Point Press
Date: 1989.
11 Stones
Description: twenty aquatints on smoked paper, 58 x 46 cm
Date: 1989
Literature: Volk 1995, 14.
11 Stones 2
Description: twenty aquatints on smoked paper, 46 x 58 cm
Date: 1989.
30 Drawings by Thoreau
Description: 32-color silkscreen on Japanese paper, 77 x 52 cm
Note: with Merce Cunningham
Date: 1974
Sources: New York, John Cage Trust. 30 Drawings by Thoreau [art] (1 copy).
Publication: in Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol: A Portfolio of Seven Prints Recording Collaborations with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, with an untitled text by Calvin Tomkins. New York: Multiples; Castelli Graphics, 1974, limited edition of 100 portfolios and 10 artistÕs proofs, numbered and signed by the artist
Literature: Anonymous 1975MERCE.
75 Stones
Description: set of
two color spitbite aquatint etchings on smoked paper printed by Marcia
Bartholme, 137 x 104 cm
Date: 1989
Edition: 25, 1
artistÕs proof
Literature: Brown, Ka. 2002 in Nicholls, 123; Lewallen 1991, 65.
Changes and
Disappearances
Description: thirty-five related prints; engraving, drypoint and color photo-etching, with shaped plates whose edges are inked, printed on Twinrocker handmade paper, circa 29 x 57 cm, by Lilah Toland, Hidekatsu Takada and Paul Singdahlsen
Date: January 1-circa 10, 1979; January 1-15, 1980; September 1980 [fifth working period]; completed January 1982
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press (each printed in two impressions, with a third impression in eleven cases to accomodate proofs for the artist, the publisher and the printers)
Literature: Brown, Ka. 1980, [11]; Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 7; Cage/Retallack 1996, 96, 98, 125, 138; DÕHarnoncourt 1993; Kostelanetz 1988b, 186; Toland 1982a.
Chess Piece
Description: black and white ink over gouache on Masonite, 50 x 50 cm
Date: 1943 or 1944
Note: made for exhibition, The Imagery of Chess (opening December 12, 1944)
Sources: Chicago, Illinois, collection Patrick Shaw
Publication: facsimile in Kostelanetz 1970d, illustration 17, between pp. 78-79
Literature: Kostelanetz 1991.
Chessfilmnoise
Description: instructions for realization of Žlm
Duration: 12 minutes
Date: June 25, 1988 in Middelburg
Realization: filmed June 26, 1988; Frank Scheffer, June 26-July 1, 1988
First shown: July 1, 1988
Sources: Dordrecht, collection Frank Scheffer
Publication: Amsterdam: FS Film en video, film, color, 12 minutes.
Deka
Description: series of thirty-five related images, 41 x 49 cm
Date: 1987 in Oakland, California, Crown Point Press
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press.
Dˇreau
Description: thirty-eight related works printed in two impressions each; color photo-etching, engraving, drypoint and aquatint on Japanese paper, 36 x 46 cm; printed by Lilah Toland, Paul Singdahlsen and Marcia Bartholme
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, marginal drawings, passim
Date: January-?, 1982
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Toland 1982b.
Dramatic Fire
Note: original title Empty Fire
Description: aquatint etching on smoked paper, 47 x 59 cm
Edition: twenty-five?
Date: 1989
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 134; Lewallen 1991, 65.
Drawings by Thoreau
Description: pencil on paper, 25 x 28 cm (framed)
Date: 1978
Note: New York, collection Francesco Pellizzi.
Edible Drawings
Note: earlier title Edible Paper
Description: series of twelve sheets of handmade paper with macrobiotic
ingredients, 31 x 23 cm each
Date: February 1989
Publication: Rugg Road Papers and Prints.
Eninka
Description: series of fifty unique smoked and branded monoprints on gampi paper chine collˇ, 64 x 48 cm, printed by Marcia Bartholme
Date: 1986
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Lewallen 1991, 65.
Essay Barcelona
Description: etching on paper, 38 x 48 cm
Date: 1991
Edition: unknown
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press.
Exquisite Corpse
Description: drawing, size unknown
Note: made with Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson
Date: Summer 1982
Publication: in John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Virgil Thomson, Party Pieces. New York [etc.]: Peters,
1982, front cover (Peters; 66500).
Fire
Description: series of sixteen unique smoked and branded monotypes, 30 x 51 cm, printed by Peter Pettengill
Date: January 2-15, 1985
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press.
Gelbe Musik
Description: pencil and silk-screen print on paper [mesostic on ŌGelbe MusikÕ], 54 x 100 cm, edition of 60, and at least 19 artistÕs proofs
Date: 1991
Sources: Berlin, collection Ursula Block and Renˇ Block.
Global Village 1-36
Description: aquatint
etching on brown smoked paper, 98 x 68 cm, edition TPF/15
Edition: fifteen
Date: 1989.
Global Village 37-48
Description: aquatint
etching on gray smoked paper, 98 x 68 cm
Edition: fifteen
Date: 1989.
HV
Note: the title is short for horizontal-vertical
Description: thirty-six monotypes, each 30 x 47 cm
Date: January 1983 [and later?]
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press.
HV2
Description: fifteen
aquatints printed in three impressions each by Pamela Paulson at Crown Point
Press, 30 x 36 cm each: HV2 10; HV2 14; HV2 14B; HV2 14C; HV2 17A; HV2 17B; HV2
19A; HV2 19B; HV2 19C; HV2 20; HV2 22; HV2 24; HV2 25A; HV2 25B; HV2 6 (numbers
in the titles of individual prints refer to the number of plates in the print)
Date: January
8-January 23 (or earlier), 1992
Literature: Brown,
Ka. 2000, 122-124, 125-140; D'Harnoncourt 1993.
Mesostics: Earth,
Air, Fire, Water
Description: twelve
collage monoprints, measurements unknown
Date: January
2-15, 1985
Edition: nine
Publication: Oakland,
California: Crown Point Press.
The Missing Stone
Description: color
etching (spitbite and sugarlift aquatint) printed from two plates (46 x 89 cm
and 69 x 92 cm) in color on smoked Somerset Textured paper, 137 x 104 cm. Trial
Proof C in a variant edition of 25. ArtistÕs Proof 5, edition of 25. Printed
with Pamela Paulson at Crown Point Press
Date: 1989
Publication: Crown
Point Press, San Francisco
Literature: Lewallen
1991, 65.
Museumscircle
Description: design of exhibition of objects from various Munich museums, 'Kunst als Grenzbeschreitung: John Cage und die Moderne'
Date: 1991.
Mushroom Book
Description: portfolio with twenty colored lithographs (ten by Cage and ten by Long), various sizes, in an edition of 75, with various artistÕs proofs, made in collaboration with Lois Long and Alexander H. Smith at Hollanders Workshop, New York; the text is in ten parts
Date: 1971-1972
Publication: Cage 1972d; New York: Hollanders Workshop, 1972
Literature: Anonymous 1972j; Cage 1973e, x-xi.
New River Watercolors
Description: fifty-two untitled watercolors on rag paper in four? series: Series I, [nos. 1-2], both 46 x 92 cm; Series II, [nos. 3-10], 66 x 183 cm each; Series III, [nos. 11-22], 91 x 38 cm each; Series IV, [nos. 23-30], 67 x 102 cm each; nos. 31-52; fifty preparatory sheets
Date: April 3-10, 1988
Literature: Addiss and Kass 2009; Brown, Ka. 2002 in Nicholls, 123; Kass 1988; Lewallen 1991, 64-65; ; Volk 1995, 12-13.
Not Wanting to Say Anything
about Marcel
Description: eight
constructions consisting of eight parallel panels of silk screened Rohm and
Haas plexiglas (Plexigrams I-VIII), 36 x 51 cm each, the front and rear panels
bronze tinted, the six interior panels clear, with images of letters and
numbers silk-screened on one side, in black and white and several colors,
mounted on a slotted walnut base, 37 x 62 x 2 cm, hand signed and numbered by
the artists, stained, sanded and wax finished, as well as two colored
lithographs (A and B), 71 x 102 cm each, handprinted on black Fabriano rag
paper, A using eight aluminium plates and nine colors, B using eight aluminium
plates and eight colors, signed and numbered by the artists in white pencil;
printed in collaboration with Calvin Sumsion and with assistance of Clive Coen,
Fred Genis, Irwin Hollander, Carl Solway, Wallasse Ting, Marjorie Trenk, under
the supervision of Hollander Workshop, New York
Dedication: to the memory of Marcel Duchamp
Date:
September 1969
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 12-17; [***CF. Kostelanetz 1970d, illustrations 59-60; Õ60-Õ80 1982, 96]
Publication: Cincinnati, Ohio: Eye Editions (limited hand printed edition of 125 numbered copies plus 18 roman numeraled artistÕs proofs)
Literature: Art in America 1969; Cage 1969c; Cage/Finegan, Koppel and Haskell 1969a, 17; Cage and Sumsion 1970; Fornel 2008; Hannes 1993; Kostelanetz 1988b, 135-136; Kostelanetz 1991; Mellow 1970; Perloff, M. 1994a; Rose, B. 1970a; Russell, J. 1970.
On the Surface
Description: thirty-six related etchings printed by Paul Singdahlsen and Peter Pettengill; accidental marks printed in color from shaped plates on Farnsworth handmade paper, 47 x 62 cm, two impressions each
Date: September 1980-before April 1982 in Oakland, California
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage. On the Surface (worksheet for no. 35)
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Cage 1981h; DÕHarnoncourt 1993; Singdahlsen 1982.
One11
Description: silent film without subject for a cameraman made with Henning Lohner
Note: may be performed with 103 [music]
Extent: 17 parts
Duration: 90 minutes
Date: 1987-1988; realized in 1992?
Realization: Van Carlson, director of photography; Henning Lohner, director
First shown: September 19, 1992
Sources: present location unknown (fragments in NYPL JPB 94-24 folder 889 and folder 895)
Publication: none
Literature: Cage 1992c; Cage 1992f; Cage 1993d, 202, 204-205; Cage/Lohner 1989, 254-255; Cage/Retallack 1996, 177, 192, 216-217; Metzger, H.-K. 1992d; Lohner 2001; Sanio 1994a.
Please Play or The Mother the Father or the Family
Description: instructions in the form of a mesostic on ŅpianofortissimoÓ for making an installation consisting of a pedestal, 71 cm high after it is compressed, made of cut pieces (torn rough) of any material (paper, wood, cloth, metal, foil) and color, the same size and shape as the lid of a concert grand piano, with instrument placed upside down on top of it
Dedication: for Gino di Maggio
Date: December 25, 1989; on exhibit January-February 1990, Milan, Gino di Maggio, also Venice 1990.
The Readymade Boomerang
Description: ŌserigraphieÕ [of a mesostic] on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Note: the text derives from the first mesostic written for Darmstadt 1990 (Cage 1991e)
Date: 1989
Sources: Berlin, collection Ursula Block and Renˇ Block.
River Rocks and Smoke
Description: sixty-one works, smoke and watercolor on paper, in [more than] three series: I, nos. 1-22, 184 x 122 cm each; II, nos. 1-6, 67 x 100 cm each; III, nos. 1-16, 133 x 38 cm each; a no. 23 of another series, 183 x 89 cm (May 31-July 19, 1996, Kunstraum MI Posselt, Bonn)
Date: April 10, 1990 (Series I); April 12, 1990 (Series II); April 13, 1990 (Series III)
Literature: DÕHarnoncourt 1993; Kass 1991a; Volk 1995, 13-14.
River Rocks and Wash
Description: watercolor?, presumably identical with River Rocks and Smoke
Date: before 1991.
Rolywholyover: A
Circus for Museum
Note: title derives from James Joyce, Finnegans Wake; earlier title [or: includes] Museumcircle [related to Munich 1991***]
Description: instructions for the realization of a changing exhibition
Date: 1992?, unfinished?
First shown: September 12-November 28, 1993
Literature: Blaz'ekovic« 1992; Ferguson and Schottlaender 1993; Lazar 1993a; Lazar 1993b.
Ryoku
Description: series of thirteen color-etchings, 46 x 61 cm each
Date: January 2-15, 1985
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Lewallen 1991, 64-65.
Score without Parts
(40 Drawings by Thoreau): Twelve Haiku
Description: color etching, printed by Stephen Thomas and Lilah Toland; hard ground, soft ground, drypoint, engraving, sugar aquatint, photo-etching on Rives BFK, 55 x 77 cm
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, marginal drawings
Date: January 1, 1978-completed in 1978 in Oakland, California
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press (edition of 25 with 10 artistÕs proofs and 3 trial proofs)
Literature: Brown, Ka. 1980, [8]-[9]; Toland 1982c.
Seven-Day Diary (Not
Knowing)
Description:
portfolio of seven etchings with two frontispieces, 32 x 43 cm each, printed on
Rives heavyweight buff by Stephen Thomas and Lilah Toland; soft ground etching,
hard ground etching, sugar aquatint, drypoint, photo etching, found objects,
adn color etching (Day One: hard ground etching, drypoint; Day Two: soft ground
etching added; Day Three: sugar aquatint added; Day Four: photo etching added;
Day Five: found objects added; Day Six: color etching added; Day Seven: soft
ground etching deleted)
Date: January
2-7, 1978
Publication: Crown Point Press, Oakland, California (edition of 25 with 10 artistÕs proofs)
Literature: Cage 1978k; Cage/White, R. 1978, 2; DÕHarnoncourt 1993.
Seventeen Drawings by
Thoreau
Description:
color photo-etching in an edition of 25 with 10 artistÕs proofs and 2 trial
proofs, each printed in a unique combination of colors by Stephen Thomas and
Lilah Toland on Hodomura paper, 64 x 92 cm
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, marginal drawings, passim
Date: 1978; worksheet completed on March 9, 1978; presumably completed September 1978
Sources: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (worksheet, 1 leaf)
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Anonymous 1984e; Brown, Ka. 1980, [8], [10]; Brown, Ka. 1982b; Volk 1995, 10-11.
Signals
Description: thirty-six related etchings, one impression made of each [however, several artist's proofs]; photo-etching, engraving and drypoint; each unique impression together with the copper plates, drawings and other materials used in its production constitutes one individual work; etchings printed on Umbria paper, 33 x 51 cm, by Lilah Toland and David Kelso
Date: August 28-September 10, 1978
Sources: no. 23 (consists of 4 [sketched] drawings, 2 copper plates)
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Brown, Ka. 1980, [10]-[11]; Brown, Ka. 1982c.
Silent Shadows
Description: film
Note: produced with Andrew Schulman
Date: May 1989
Duration: 2 minutes
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage (sketches)
Publication: Boston, Massachusetts: WNEV-TV Studio 7, 1989, TV film, black and white
Realization: (date: May 4, 1989)
First broadcast: June 29, 1989
Literature: Kahn, J.P. 1989.
Smoke Weather Stone
Weather
Description:
thirty-seven unique aquatints with etching on smoked paper printed by Paul
Mullowney, 40 x 51 cm each
Date: early
January 1991
Literature: Brown, Ka. 2000, 113-118; Lewallen 1991, 65, 68; Volk 1995, 14.
Steps
Description: watercolor, 518 x 152 cm
Date: 1989
Literature: Silverman, K. 2010, 373-374.
Stones
Description: etchings
Date: 1989
Literature: Lewallen 1991, CHECK.
Stoperas 1 & 2
Description: instructions for realization of film
Model: John Cage, Europeras 1 & 2, 1985-1987
Duration: circa 4 minutes
Realization: Frank Scheffer, 1987
First presentation: September 23, 1991, Utrecht, Rembrandttheater, Nederlandse Filmdagen
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Amsterdam: FS Film en video, 1987, film, color, no sound, 4 minutes.
Strings 1-20
Description: artworks plus master plate, embossed, colored, 22 x 30 cm
Date: November 13-14, 1980
Publication: in 33rd Annual Contemporary American Art Exhibition: Ideas from Individual Expressions and Marks: Prints of Non-Printmakers: November 18, 1988-January 1, 1989, Wilson Gallery and Hall Gallery, Alumni Memorial Building, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 5.
Strings 1-62
Description: artworks plus master plate, embossed, colored, 22 x 30 cm
Date: November 13-14, 1980.
Publication: in 33rd Annual Contemporary American Art Exhibition: Ideas from Individual Expressions and Marks: Prints of Non-Printmakers: November 18, 1988-January 1, 1989, Wilson Gallery and Hall Gallery, Alumni Memorial Building, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 5.
The Sun
Description: film
Duration: unknown
Dedication: for Richard Lippold
Date: August 1956
Realization: probably none
First broadcast: unknown
Sources: New York, John Cage Trust
Publication: none.
Urban Landscape
Description: alteration of Where There Is Where There, 1987
Date: 1989.
Variations
Description: series of thirty-five monotypes, sizes unknown
Date: 1987 in Oakland, California, Crown Point Press
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press.
Variations
Description: series of fifty-seven monotypes with branding on smoked paper, 45 x 66 cm each
Edition: unknown
Date: [1987-?] 1992
Publication: San Francisco, California: Crown Point Press.
Variations II
Description: fifteen? monotypes on smoked paper, all 66 x 49 cm
Date: 1991
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 116-117, 120; Volk 1995, 14.
Variations III
Description: series of fifty-seven monotypes; branding on smoked paper, 45 x 65 cm each
Date: January 1992
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 117, 119, 120; Volk 1995, 14.
WagnerÕs Ring
Description: instructions for realization of film
Model: Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen
Duration: circa 3 minutes [and 40 seconds?]
Realization: Frank Scheffer, 1987
Sources: none?
Publication: Amsterdam: FS Film en video, 1987, film, color, no sound, 4 minutes.
Weather-ed I-XII
Description: twelve color photographs made by Paul Barton of twelve weathered images on the Siegel Cooper Building, New York, 68 x 41 cm
Date: before or during 1983
Publication: Cage 1983j, between pages 22-23, 38-39, 102-103, 118-119, 158-159, 174-175
Literature: Cage 1983b, x.
Weather-ed
Description: color photo-etching, 68 x 41 cm in an edition of twenty-five
Date: 1983.
Weather-ed II
Description: series
of fifty colorplate-etchings, 66 x 22 cm each
Date: 1984.
WGBH-TV
Description: film
Medium: composer and technicians (directions for realization of a television Žlm)
Duration: 30 minutes
Note: response to a request by Eva Smerchek for an object for a charity auction
Dedication: for Nam June Paik
Date: between September 11-15, 1971 in New York and in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Realization: Nam June Paik and John Cage, fall 1971
First broadcast: September 11, 1971, Boston, Massachusetts, WGBH-TV
Sources: New York, John Cage Trust
Publication: New York: Henmar Press, 1971 (Peters; 6808) [score]; New York: Henmar Press, 1971 (Peters; 6808a) [16 mm film, black and white]
Literature: Cage/Charles 1976, 193n1; Fetterman 1996, 93-94.
Where Is the War
Description: object with plexiglas (a small and a large version seem to exist)
Date: 1985
Sources: Berlin, collection Ursula Block and Renˇ Block.
Where R = Ryoanji
Description:
eight drypoints, 24 x 60 cm, printed in an edition of 25 each: 2R + 13-14;
R2-1; R2-2; R2-3; 2R + B 4/4; (R), R;
(R3); R3; several artistÕs proofs
Note: each ŌRÕ stands for fifteen rocks (chance-selected out of a collection of sixteen) used to draw around with a drypoint line several times; in 2R + 13-14 Cage drew around two rocks each fifteen times, then drew thirteen rocks each fourteen times; in R2-1, R2-2, and R2-3, Cage drew 15 squared, 225 times on each plate; R to the third power entails 3375 drawings; R2-1 as cover graph of Cage 1983LIVRE
Date: January-before May 1983 in Oakland, California, Crown Point Press and New York
Literature: Lewallen 1991, 63-64; Revill 1992, 367; Steinbaum 1986, 16.
Where R = Ryoanji
Description: at least thirty drawings, pencil on handmade Japanese paper; the following ones are known: (4R)/4 and R2/17, both 23 x 49 cm, and (9/R)/6 and 11R/7, both 26 x 49 cm (1983); 3R/5, size unknown; (R)/12, 23 x 49 cm (Summer 1983); (2R)/12, 23 x 49 cm (June 1983); (R2)/9 and (4R/7), 23 x 49 cm, and (2R)/1, 26 x 49 cm (July 1983); (R)/2, 23 x 49 cm, (2/R)/6 and (R)/7, both 26 x 49 cm (August 1983); 5R/7, R2/1, 14R/2, and 6R/10, all 26 x 21 cm (1984); 12R/2, 23 x 49 cm (1984); 2R/9, 26 x 49 cm (June 1987); 3R/12, 26 x 49 cm (June 1987); R/10, 26 x 49 cm (February 1988); R/1, R/2, and R/16, all 26 x 49 cm (March 1990); R/3, R/5, and R/6, all 26 x 49 cm (December 1990); R3/17 and 13R/5, both 26 x 49 cm (1992)
Date: Summer 1983 (5, 6) and see listing above
Literature: Kaak and Thierolf 1997; Roeder 1985; ; Volk 1995, 11.
Where There Is Where There
Description: series of thirty-eight [or forty] related images, 59 x 76 cm; several (possibly the altered ones) have subtitles: Urban Landscape #6, dated 1987-1989
Date: 1987 in Oakland, California, Crown Point Press
Publication: Oakland, California: Crown Point Press
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 114-116, 118, 120.
Wild Edible Drawings
Description: six suites of twelve handmade papers from edible components of
twenty-seven plants, ca. 43 x 30 cm each
Date: August 1989
Publication: Rugg Road Papers and Prints, Boston, Massachusetts
Literature: Giuliano 1990; Lewallen 1991, 65.
Without Horizon
Description: fifty-seven
related unique prints, drypoint and etching, with aquatint, smoked paper, 19 x
22 cm each
Date: January
8-January 23 (or earlier), 1992
Literature: Brown, Ka. 2000, 117-122; Cage/Retallack 1996, 129-132.