Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930). Dancers on a Plane, 1980-81.

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) encaustic and paper on hardboard at the Art Institute of Chicago. Written near the painting: While Jasper Johns has worked with stencils of alphabet letters since the 1950s, this is his only paining that shows a single sequence from A to Z. The artist made Alphabet the same year in which he introduced riots of primary colors–augmented by touches of green, pink, orange, pale blue, gray, brown, black, and white–into his work. We might try to read this painting in order, letter by letter, from top left to bottom right. But the jumble of strokes, daubs, smudges, and collaged fragments of painted paper scatters our eyes across the animated surface, challenging our eyes across the animated surface, challenging any sense of sequential progress. In this way, two different stylistic approaches–orderly grids of stenciled forms versus brushy gestures–are set against each other.

Jasper Johns (American, b.1930) - Hand, Lithograph, 57.2 × 44.4 cm (1963)

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) Flag (Moratorium), 1969 Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper 20-1/2 x 28-1/2 inches (52.1 x 72.4 cm) (sheet) Ed. 254/300 Signed and numbered in pencil along lower edge Published by the Committee Against the War in Vietnam

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Jasper Johns (b. 1930)

About Signed, dated and numbered, 1981 aquatint and color etching on Rives BFK paper- Periscope, by iconic American artist, Jasper Johns (b. 1930). Marked 22 /88 on the lower left. Signed and dated, lower right. Select collections: MOMA, NYC; National Gallery of Art, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Tate Gallery, London, U.K. Winner: Golden Lion, Venice Biennale, 1988; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2011. Comprehensive retrospectives: Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 1977; MOMA, NYC, 1997; National Gallery of Art, D.C., 2007 Sheet size: 41 in. H x 29.75 in. W

Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), Zone Black State, 1972. Lithograph on Arjomari paper, 79.4 x 54 cm. Edition 12/16.

Jasper Johns. 1930. US. Passage 1962. Cologne. Musée Ludwig.

Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents marriage failed. He then spent a…

Untitled - Jasper Johns, 2014. American,b.1930 - Acrylic on canvas,36 x 27 in.

Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), Figure 5, 1960. Encaustic and paper on canvas, 183 x 137.5 cm.

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Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), Flags II, 1970. Lithograph, image: 84.8 × 62.2 cm). Sheet (irreg.): 84.8 × 62.2 cm.

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