7. Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns (b Augusta, GA, 15 May 1930)

Ben Martin, Jasper Johns, Age 29, at Castelli Gallery with Target Painting, Rudi Belsh Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Flag. 1954–55 Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood (three panels) 42 1/4 x 60 5/8" (107.3 x 154 cm) MoMA

Early works, to c 1960

Green Target 1955 Encaustic and collage on canvas 152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 in) MoMA

The Critic Smiles (1959

Painted Bronze, 1960

Technics and Creativity: Target (Field 135, Gemini 276). Original lithograph, rubber stamp, & collage, 1971

Target with Four Faces 1955 Encaustic and collage on canvas with plaster casts 29 3/4 x 26 x 3 3/4 in. (75.5 x 71 x 9.7 cm.)

The cross-hatching pictures

Untitled. 1972 Oil, encaustic, and collage on canvas with objects (four panels) 6' 1/16" x 16' 1" (183 x 490 cm) Museum Ludwig, Ludwig Donation, Cologne

Works of the 1980s Self Portrait: Between Clock and Bed, 1940-42; Oil on canvas, 149.5 x 120.5 cm; Munch Museum, Oslo

Between the Clock and the Bed Lithograph, ten aluminum plates john koller hmp Paper, 29 x 42 inches

Perilous Night, 1982, encaustic on canvas with objects, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Racing Thoughts, 1983, Encaustic and collage on canvas 121.9 x 190.8 cm (48 x 75 1/8") Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Winter Etchings with aquatint; 26 1/4 x 19 1/8 in. (66.7 x 48.6 cm) Summer

The Seasons (Summer), 1987

Picasso shadow 1953

Three Flags, 1958. Encaustic on canvas, Overall: 30 7/8 x 45 1/2 x 5in. (78.4 x 115.6 x 12.7cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Untitled, 1954, Painted wood, painted plaster cast, photomechanical reproductions on canvas, glass and nails 26 1/4 x 8 7/8 x 4 3/8 in. (66.6 x 22.5 x 11.1 cm.) Hirschorn

Fool's House, 1962

Skin with O'Hara Poem, 1963/1965, lithograph (stone) in 2 blacks on KE Albanene Engineer Standard Form paper, 55.88 x 86.36 cm (22 x 34 in.)

Map, 1962, Encaustic and collage on canvas 60 x 93 in. (152.4 x 236.2 cm) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Map, 1961

End paper ) Date : 1976

False Start. 1959 Oil on canvas 67 1/4 x 54" (170.8 x 137.2 cm) Collection David Geffen, Los Angeles

Green Angel 1990. Encaustic, sand on canvas 75 1/8 x 50 3/16 x 1 1/4". Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Q: You nearly always use the same type. Any particular reason? A: That's how the stencils come. Q: But if you preferred another typeface, would you think it improper to cut your own stencils? A: Of course not. Q: Then you really do like those best? A: Yes. Michael Crichton & J.Johns

Grey Alphabet, 1956

Numbers in color, 1958-9

0 through 9, 1961 Oil on canvas 54 x45 cm. The Tate Gallery, London

Influenced by Marcel Duchamp in the mid1950s, Johns attempted to transform common objects into art by placing them in an art context.

Savarin, 1960

Jasper Johns , 1977

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