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Jasper Johns

[American Abstract Expressionist/Pop Painter and Sculptor, born in 1930]

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Original works by Jasper Johns available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
Many works by Jasper Johns online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Device, 1961-62

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Two Maps, I, 1966
Target, 1971
Untitled, 1977

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Jasper Johns at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
White Flag, 1955
Usuyuki, silkscreen, 1981

Jasper Johns at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Flag, 1957

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
24 works by Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns"

Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Perilous Night

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Photograph of the artist

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Figure 1

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled, 1999

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Target, drawing

Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas
Painting with Two Balls I, lithograph, 1962

Broad Art Foundation

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Figure 8

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina   NEW!
Dutch Wives

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Corpse and Mirror

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina   NEW!
Painting with Two Balls
The Dutch Wives


Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Untitled, 1991

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #20

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland   NEW!
Alphabetically under "J"

Jasper Johns in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
5 works listed, the only one of which can be magnified is: Untitled

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
In Memory of My Feelings - Frank O'Hara

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

National Academy of Design, New York City
Green Angel, 1991

Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Fragment According to What Series - Bent Blue, 1971

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Decoy II, 1971-73

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Bread

Jasper Johns at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Decoy

University of Kentucky Art Museum
Usuyuki, 1979-81

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Between the Clock and the Bed, 1983

Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Flags

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
Figure 8, 1959

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Racing Thoughts, 1983

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Three Flags, 1958

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

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Pictures from Image Archives:
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Target with Four Faces

Insecula

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Three Flags

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

PBase Photo Sharing
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USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Savarin, 18/50, 1977

PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jasper Johns
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

ARTnews
Named as one of "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists"

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies

Slate Magazine
"Capture the Flag: Jasper Johns' own private icon," article by Louis Menand

The Art Newspaper
Jasper Johns: more than the slayer of Abstract Expressionist giants

Time Magazine
"Pictures at an Inhibition", 1977 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"The Venice Biennale Bounces Back", 1988 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Behind the Sacred Aura", 1996 article by Robert Hughes

 
Multimedia:
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)   NEW!
Curator Jeffrey Weiss talks about a 2007 exhibit of Johns' work at the National Gallery

  
 
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Jasper Johns: Number 7
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Flag, 1954
Flag, 1954


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Jasper Johns: Savarin
Savarin


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Jasper Johns: Two Flags, 1959
Two Flags, 1959


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Jasper Johns: Three Flags
Three Flags


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Jasper Johns: Target, 1974
Target, 1974

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