Untitled
1995
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View on museum website →Medium
color mezzotint with chine collé on handmade paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.53 × 20.16 cm (11 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 65.41 × 47.63 cm (25 3/4 × 18 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, The Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.3047
Art Historical Context
Jasper Johns, a pivotal figure in post-war American art, is renowned for his innovative works that blurred the lines between painting, sculpture, and printmaking, often drawing from everyday symbols like flags and targets. This *Untitled* print from 1995 exemplifies his later career explorations, where he delved into complex layering and ambiguity. Created during a period when Johns was pushing the boundaries of perception and memory, the work reflects his enduring fascination with how images are constructed and interpreted. The medium—color mezzotint withchine collé* on handmade paper—is par...
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...