Green Angel 2 [trial proof 9]
1997
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aquatint and etching in green on buff wove paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
plate: 103.51 x 46.36 cm (40 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.) sheet: 121.92 x 61.6 cm (48 x 24 1/4 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
2010.116.338
Art Historical Context
**Green Angel 2trial proof 9]**, created by Jasper Johns in 1997, exemplifies the artist's enduring fascination with form, color, and the printmaking process. Johns, a pivotal figure in post-war American art, rose to prominence in the 1950s with iconic images like flags and targets, bridging Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art through his precise, layered compositions. By the late 1990s, his work had evolved toward more introspective motifs, and this green-hued angel emerges from that mature phase, rendered as a trial proof—the ninth in a series of experimental states before the final edition. ...
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...