0 through 9 [trial proof]
started 1977, published 1978
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color lithograph on gray La Paloma handmade paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
image: 15.56 × 12.7 cm (6 1/8 × 5 in.) sheet: 25.08 × 19.37 cm (9 7/8 × 7 5/8 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
2008.136.405
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of Art where Jasper Johns' *0 through 9 [ proof]* (started 1977, published1978) invites us into the artist's meticulous world of numbers and repetition. Johns, a pivotal figure in mid-20th-century American art associated with Neo-Dada and Pop Art, famously elevated everyday symbols like flags, targets, and numerals into profound meditations on perception and representation. This intimate color lithograph—measuring just 15.56 × 12.7 cm for the image on a 25.08 × 19.37 cm sheet—likely superimposes the digits 0 through 9, echoing his iconic 1950s-60s paintings that...
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...