Untitled (White Mezzotint) [state proof of 5th state]
1995
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mezzotint in black on wove paper [state proof]
Dimensions
plate: 49.53 x 32.7 cm (19 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 75.57 x 56.52 cm (29 3/4 x 22 1/4 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
2010.116.266
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the National Gallery of Art will encounter Jasper Johns' *Untitled (White Mezzot) [state proof of5th state]* (1995), a striking example of the artist's late-career mastery in printmaking. Johns, a pivotal figure in post-war American art associated with Neo-Dada and Pop Art is renowned for his iconic flags, targets, and numbers that blurred lines between painting and object. By the 1990s, he delved deeper into technical innovation, producing this mezzotint as part of an evolving series of states—trial impressions refined before the final edition. Mezzotint, known as the "black mann...
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...