Cicada
Jasper Johns
1981
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on Georges Duchêne Calcaire wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 88.9 x 66 cm (35 x 26 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger P. Sonnabend
Accession Number
1986.90.14
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...