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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
WA-00000591
PaintingNeo-DadaAbstract ExpressionismPop Art
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
1056
Works in Collection
1508
Assets Indexed
14
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Jasper Johns
Gagosian
2026
Field Verification (7 fields)
4 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
- WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (4)
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- SothebysTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Matthew-MarksTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
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.
Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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Movement
Neo-Dada
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (1056)
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Artwork sources (6)
834 published of 1000 catalogued · 910 with image
- Art Institute Chicago516 published516 img
- MoMA292 publishedof 457 catalogued381 img
- Tate12 published12 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art7 published
- The Met7 published
- + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)
3 entries · 1 sources
- 1968 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1960 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1960 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
Relationships
15Institutional
Representation & Collections
Gallery
David Zwirner
Represented by
Matthew Marks Gallery
CurrentGallery
Gagosian
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Tate
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Market
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Background
Education
University of South Carolina
Visual Arts
Sumter High School
Visual Arts
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