Jasper Johns

(b Augusta, GA, 15 May 1930)

Flag. 1954–55
Encaustic, oil, and collage
Ben Martin, Jasper Johns, Age 29, on fabric mounted on plywood
at Castelli Gallery with Target Painting, (three panels)
Rudi Belsh Papers, Archives of American Art, 42 1/4 x 60 5/8" (107.3 x 154 cm)
Smithsonian Institution 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
 Picasso shadow 1953
The Seasons (Summer), 1987
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 mid-
1950s, Johns attempted to transform common
objects into art by placing them in an art
context.
Savarin, 1960
Jasper Johns , 1977

2000