Four Panels (DABC) [trial proof 4]
1976
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View on museum website →Medium
etching, drypoint, and aquatint in black and gray on wove paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
sheet: 8.7 × 19.6 cm (3 7/16 × 7 11/16 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
2008.136.204
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of Jasper Johns, pivotal figure in 20th-century American art bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art his iconic motifs of flags, targets, numbers. Created in 1976, *Four Panels (DABC [trial proof 4 is a intimate etching, drypoint, and aquatint black and gray on wove paper, measuring just 8.7 × 19.6 cm. This trial proof— one of the experimental stages before the final edition—offers a rare glimpse into Johns' meticulous printmaking process, held in the National Gallery of Art thanks to the Patrons' Fund and Special Friends. Johns masterfully combines etching (f...
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...