Jeff Koons

Acquired directly from the artist in 1991

Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith and Peter Halley, Beyond Boundaries: New York's New Art, New York, 1986, p. 6, illustrated (Jim Beam - J. B. Turner Train) 
Exh. Cat., London, Saatchi Gallery, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, 1987, pp. 136-137, illustrated (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: Works 1979 - 1988, 1988, cat. no. 19, pp. 30-31, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, 1990, cat no. 32, p. 395, illustrated (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Jeff Koons and Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London, 1992, pp. 66-67, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train) and p. 157 (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Engine in checklist)
Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, fig. 2, p. 71, illustrated in color, fig. 1, pp. 68-69, illustrated in color and p. 70, illustrated in installation photograph from 1986 Daniel Weinberg Gallery show (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, 1992, cat. no. 28, pl. 24, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and travelling, Jeff Koons - Retrospective, 1992-93, pp. 52-53, illustrated in color (Amsterdam and Stuttgart) and cat. no. 13, pl. 30, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color (Aarhus) [Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train]
Exh. Cat., Athens, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, A Millenium Celebration, 1999, pp. 26-27, illustrated(Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons: Easyfun - Ethereal, New York, 2000, p. 34, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, 2001, p. 224, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002, New York, 2002, pl. IV, p. 21, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, 2003, pp. 44-45 and p. 51, illustrated (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons Retrospective, 2004, pp. 44-45, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, 2004, pl. 15, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J. B. Turner Train)
Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea series), Milan, 2006, pp. 44-45, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J. B. Turner Train)
Hans Holzwarth, Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2007, p. 195, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J. B. Turner Engine, ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, 2008, pp. 42-43, illustrated (detail) and pp. 48-49, illustrated (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)
Exh. Cat., Versailles, Château de Versailles, Jeff Koons, 2008, pp. 81-82, 83 (detail), 156 and 166, illustrated in color (Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train)

"I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I saw in a liquor store this train that was made out of plastic and porcelain.  It was a Jim Beam train.  What caught my interest was the possibility to transform it and to cast it in stainless steel and bring it to a mirror finish, but to also maintain the soul of the piece, which was the liquor inside.  So after the train was cast, it was sent back to Jim Beam where they refilled each car with a fifth of Bourbon, and the tax-stamp seal was put on.  You can drink it and enjoy the bourbon, but you have killed the work of art because you've destroyed the soul of the piece when you break the tax-stamp seal."
-Jeff Koons (Exh. Cat., San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and travelling), Jeff Koons, 1992, n.p.)