Untitled [trial proof]
2001
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View on museum website →Medium
color etching and aquatint on wove paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
plate: 45.72 x 67.31 cm (18 x 26 1/2 in.) sheet: 56.83 x 78.11 cm (22 3/8 x 30 3/4 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
2010.116.457
Art Historical Context
**Untitled [trial proof]** by Jasper Johns (200) invites visitors into the innovative world of one of America's most influential postwar artists. Johns, a pivotal figure in Neo-Dada and Pop Art, art in the 1950s with iconic motifs like flags and targets, challenging the boundaries between everyday objects and high art. By 2001, in his mature phase, Johns continued exploring ambiguity and perception through prints, bridging his early precision with later, more layered abstractions. This color etching and aquatint on wove paper exemplifies advanced printmaking techniques. Etching creates crisp ...
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...