Skip to main content
Collections Menu
SAM'S collection

Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel Plexigram I-VIII

Date1969
Maker John Cage American, 1912-1992
Object number2015.22.1
ProvenanceJames Cohan Gallery, New York
Photo CreditPlexigram I - 109/125
Exhibition HistoryPasadena, California, Norton Simon Museum, Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: An Artwork by John Cage, September 24, 2010-March 28, 2011 Palo Alto, California, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: John Cage Plexigrams, June 13-November 11, 2012 Claremont, California, Pomona College Museum of Art, Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: John Cage Plexigrams, October 23-December 16, 2012
Credit LineGeneral Acquisition Fund
DimensionsEach assembled Plexigram: 14 1/2 x 24 x 14 1/2 in. (36.8 x 61 x 36.8 cm) Each Plexigram plate: 14 x 20 x 1/8 in. (35.6 x 50.8 x .3 cm) Each base: 14 1/2 x 24 x 3/4 in. (36.8 x 61 x 1.9 cm)
MediumEight Plexigrams composed of eight panels of Plexiglas set into a walnut base; two bronze and six clear Plexiglas panels per set
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
John Cage
1969
Object number: 2012.25
Photo: Mark Woods
Donald Judd
1969
Object number: 2014.25.36
Photo: Nathaniel Willson
Eric Fischl
1984
Object number: 2014.25.18
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
ca. 1800
Object number: 90.41
National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Hu Dung
19th century
Object number: 91.6
National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Yi Gong U
19th century
Object number: 90.1
Photo: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Mickalene Thomas
2014
Object number: 2015.9
E. W. Godwin
ca. 1875
Object number: 2013.21
Photo: Scott Leen
Katarina Paba
2017
Object number: 2022.43.10
Photo: Nathaniel Willson
David Salle
1990-91
Object number: 2014.25.71
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Kano Takanobu
beginning of the 17th century
Object number: 51.37.1