Artists at Work from the portfolio The Met 150
2021 · Etching with aquatint
composition: 11 5/16 × 8 1/16" (28.7 × 20.5 cm); sheet: 15 × 11 9/16" (38.1 × 29.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jasper Johns
1930
PaintingNeo-DadaAbstract ExpressionismPop Art
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
1056
Works in Collection
1507
Assets Indexed
14
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0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Movements
- • Neo-Dada
- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Pop Art
- • Expressionism
- • Op Art
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Jasper Johns
Gagosian
2026
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Why this artist matters now
Jasper Johns works across painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, building a practice anchored in the transformation of familiar symbols, flags, targets, numbers, and maps into objects of sustained formal inquiry. Operating at a point of friction between abstract expressionism and the emerging pop sensibility of postwar America, his work refuses easy categorisation, absorbing gestural painterly mark-making while insisting on the flatness and legibility of common signs. His encaustic surfaces in particular achieve a paradox of immediacy and opacity, rendering the most recognisable imagery strange. The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art hold significant bodies of his work, reflecting his central position in the American postwar canon.
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Movement
Neo-Dada
Medium
Painting
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Representation & Collections
Gallery
David Zwirner
Represented by
Matthew Marks Gallery
CurrentGallery
Gagosian
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Tate
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Background
Education
University of South Carolina
Visual Arts
Sumter High School
Visual Arts
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