"Handing Me One of the Halves, He Spoke the Single Word, Drink": Translation #23

Jess, "Handing Me One of the Halves, He Spoke the Single Word, Drink": Translation #23, 1969. Enamel on canvas mounted on wood, overall: 29 7/8 × 20 in. (75.9 × 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund, Mrs. Laila Twigg-Smith, Dr. Jack Chachkes, the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund, the Julia B. Engel Purchase Fund and gift of Odyssia Skouras 93.20. ©The Jess Collins Trust Reproduced with permission