False Start II
1962
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View on museum website →Medium
11-color lithograph (stone) on A. Millbourn & Co. paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.) sheet: 76.8 x 57.2 cm (30 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Accession Number
1976.56.58
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...