Untitled [trial proof]
2000
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linocut in black on wove paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
block: 10.16 × 12.7 cm (4 × 5 in.) sheet: 22.23 × 26.67 cm (8 3/4 × 10 1/2 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
2010.116.608
Art Historical Context
Jasper Johns, a pivotal figure in post-World War II American art, is renowned for his innovative prints and paintings that blur the lines between representation and abstraction, often drawing from everyday symbols like flags and numbers. Created in 2000, *Untitled [trial proof]* his late-career experimentation in printmaking. This modest linocut—carved from linoleum and inked in stark black on wove paper—measures just 4 × 5 inches on the block, inviting close inspection of its textured surface and precise incisions. As a trial proof, this work captures a moment of artistic process rather than...
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...