0-9 from 1st Etchings [trial proof]
1968
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etching and photo-etching on Angoumois à la Main handmade paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
sheet: 66 x 50.8 cm (26 x 20 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund and Special Friends of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
2004.167.54
Art Historical Context
Jasper Johns' *0-9 from 1st Etchings [trial proof]* (1968) invites viewers into the artist's meticulous world of numbers and repetition. This striking print features the digits 0 through9, rendered in a grid-like arrangement that echoes Johns' earlier paintings of numerals. A key figure in American Pop Art and Neo-Dada Johns blurred the lines between high art and everyday symbols, challenging perceptions of familiarity and abstraction during the turbulent late 1960s. Crafted as an etching and photo-etching on luxurious Angoumois à la Main handmade paper (sheet: 66 x 50.8 cm), this trial proof...
About the Artist
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker whose revolutionary work fundamentally transformed the trajectory of postwar American art. Emerging in the 1950s when Abstract Expressionism dominated the New York art world, Johns introduced a radically different approach by painting familiar, everyday symbols—flags, targets, numbers, and maps—that he des...