Zone [trial proof 5]
1972
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color lithograph on Angoumois à la Main handmade paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
sheet: 111.76 x 73.66 cm (44 x 29 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
2008.27.54
Art Historical Context
Jasper Johns, a towering figure in post-war American art, revolutionized painting and printmaking in the 1950s and 1960s by elevating everyday symbols—like flags, targets, and numbers—into profound meditations on perception and reality. Associated with Neo-Dada and early Pop Art, Johns bridged Abstract Expressionism's emotional intensity with cool, conceptual precision. *Zone [trial proof 5]* (1972) exemplifies his later explorations, likely drawing from fragmented maps or crosshatch patterns that defined his 1970s output, inviting viewers to question boundaries between image and object. This...
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...