Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980; Penguin Books, 1981; reprint, 1985), 96.
15
JJ: WSNI, 165.
16
Johns owns another version of Music Box, but according to the artist, this “was made circa 1959 in imitation of” the earlier work. Rosenthal’s Music Box was covered with glass on one side, whereas Johns’s is not. E-mail correspondence from Johns to the author, 19 and 30 September 2008.
17
Johns, quoted in Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s (Houston, Texas: The Menil Collection / Houston Fine Art Press, 1991), 169.
18
JJ: WSNI, 163.
19
Calvin Tomkins, “Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg’s New Life,” The New Yorker (23 May 2005): 76.
20
Joachim Pissarro, Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 165–168.
21
JJ: WSNI, 122.
22
De Antonio and Tuchman, 96–97.
23
JJ: WSNI, 122.
24
JJ: WSNI, 165.
25
Michael Crichton, Jasper Johns (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977; revised and expanded edition, 1994), 29.
26
Crichton, 20.
27
Johns, in a 1999 unpublished interview with Richard S. Field, quoted in Richard Shiff, “Flicker in the Work,” Master Drawings 44, no. 3 (2006), 294.
28
JJ: WSNI, 81.
29
JJ: WSNI, 87.
30
JJ: WSNI, 145.
31
De Antonio and Tuchman, 99.
32
Harry Cooper made these observations in a talk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on 2 March 2008.
33
JJ: WSNI, 82.
34
JJ: WSNI, 106.
35
Tomkins, Off the Wall, 119.
36
James Rondeau, “Jasper Johns: Gray” in James Rondeau and Douglas Druick, Jasper Johns Gray (Chicago / New Haven, Conn. and London: Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press, 2007), 45–47.
37
Cage, quoted in Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg: Art and Life (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990), 89.
38
Robert Rosenblum, “Castelli Group,” Arts 31 (May 1957): 53, and “Cover,” Art News 56 (January 1958): 5, respectively.
39
JJ: WSNI, 82.
40
JJ: WSNI, 20.
41
JJ: WSNI, 100.
42
JJ: WSNI, 20.
43
JJ: WSNI, 212.
44
JJ: WSNI, 110.
45
JJ: WSNI, 114.
46
JJ: WSNI, 92.
47
Johns once made a drawing of a flag with sixty-four stars (eight rows, rather than six rows, of eight stars each), but he has said this was a mistake. Subsequently, he has also on occasion returned to this version of the flag in his work.
48
JJ: WSNI, 134.
49
JJ: WSNI, 100.
50
JJ: WSNI, 85.
51
Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’ Paintings and Sculptures: 1954–74: “The Changing Focus of the Eye” (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Press, 1985), 226–227, n. 1.
WSNI, 220.
