Untitled from Artists for Obama
2008
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etching and aquatint on wove Hahnemühle Copperplate paper from a portfolio of eight lithographs and five etchings
Dimensions
plate: 8.89 x 20.32 cm (3 1/2 x 8 in.) sheet: 21.59 x 30.48 cm (8 1/2 x 12 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L., LLC and the Artist
Accession Number
2009.69.1.5
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...