Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, New York
Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
Acquired from the above by descent
Stanford University Art Museum and T. W. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, California, The Anderson Print Collection at Stanford: Prints, Multiples and Monotypes 1968–1990, August 11 - December 13, 1992
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, October 7 - December 31, 2000
Palm Springs Desert Museum, An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, January 17 - March 25, 2001
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Jasper Johns: 45 Years of Master Prints, October 15, 2005 - February 12, 2006
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, September 29, 2021 - February 13, 2022 (other impressions of Summer and Winter)
Universal Limited Art Editions 238-241
Karin Breuer, An American Focus, The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, pp. 134-35 (illustrated)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, pp. 291-92, 294-95 (other examples illustrated)
American • 1930
Jasper Johns is a painter and printmaker who holds a foundational place in twentieth century art history. Quoting the evocative gestural brushstroke of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns represented common objects such as flags, targets, masks, maps and numbers: He sought to explore things "seen and not looked at, not examined" in pictorial form. Drawing from common commercial and 'readymade' objects, such as newspaper clippings, Ballantine Ale and Savarin Coffee cans, Johns was a bridge to Pop, Dada and Conceptual art movements.
Beyond the historical significance, each work by Johns is individually considered in sensuous form. A curiosity of medium led him to employ a range of materials from encaustic and commercial house paint to lithography, intaglio and lead relief.
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