0 through 9
started 1977, published 1978
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on La Paloma handmade paper
Dimensions
image: 24.45 × 19.84 cm (9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 15.24 × 12.54 cm (6 × 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade
Accession Number
1981.83.3
Art Historical Context
**0 through 9** is a captivating color lithograph by Jasper Johns, started in 1977 and published in 1978 Printed on luxurious La Paloma handmade paper this intimate work measures just 24.45 × 19.84 cm for the image area, with a sheet of 15.24 × 12.54 cm—perfect for close contemplation. Now housed in the National Gallery of Art's print collection as a generous gift from Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade, it exemplifies Johns' enduring fascination with numerals, a motif he explored since the 1950s in paintings and prints. Johns, a pivotal figure in American postwar art associated with Neo-Dada and ea...
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...