Perilous Night
1982
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View on museum website →Medium
encaustic and silkscreen on canvas with objects
Dimensions
overall: 170.5 x 244.2 x 15.9 cm (67 1/8 x 96 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.) framed: 173.5 x 247.2 x 4.8 cm (68 5/16 x 97 5/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Accession Number
1995.79.1
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...