Alphabet
Jasper Johns
c. 1968-1969
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
inkless embossing on green laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 33.02 × 25.56 cm (13 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2000.120.5
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...