This drawing is unique in that Johns drew the image onto Japanese paper, leaving a thin margin at the edges of the composition, then carefully mounted it onto Torinoko paper, an elegant material for printmaking and drawing. A regimented ink and crayon drawing, the present work is a rare large-scale work from the Numbers series, of which many painted, drawn, encaustic and sculpmetal versions reside in museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The works comprising the final series 0 through 9 are single images in which the numbers have been superimposed onto one another, creating a cacophonous energy that nevertheless hints at the edges and shapes of the numbers. The Figures series comprises single numbers 0 - 9 presents the numerals in an abbreviated grid, either together or as separate works to be hung together in a grid format. By 1960, Johns had devised four discrete formats for investigating the infinite variations of these numerals: Figures, Numbers, 0 - 9 and 0 through 9. Numerals first appeared in Jasper Johns’ work in Construction with Toy Piano from 1954, and would remain a central motif of the artist’s works for decades to come indeed, he has explored the form of numbers more than any other subject or series in his career. From flags to targets to maps, Johns’s output integrates abstraction with representation and brings to the fore the viewer’s agency in perceiving these everyday and commonplace signs. Foreword by Katharine Lee Reid.The astoundingly prolific career of Jasper Johns constitutes an intense fascination with semiotics and the uncertain status of an object and its literal representation. His astounding Numbers, from 2006, is a riveting expression of one of his most often referenced subjects in his most favored gray scale palette. ![]() ![]() Essays by Roberta Bernstein and Carter E. Published by The Cleveland Museum of Art. JASPER JOHNS THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN: 9780870707681įORMAT: Paperback, 11.5 x 10 in. JASPER JOHNS: REGRETS THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN: 9780870709586 JASPER JOHNS ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS ISBN: 9781910350683 JASPER JOHNS ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS ISBN: 9781910350690 Included are an in-depth essay by curator Roberta Bernstein, who has written extensively on Johns, color plates of all the works in the exhibition, illustrations of other important works, and a list of all works by Johns on the subject, organized by theme.įor assistance locating a copy, please see our list of recommended out of print specialists This exhibition catalogue accompanies the first show to concentrate in depth on a single subject by Johns- Numbers-and it brings together painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking from all periods of his career, focusing on the years between 19. His explorations of these familiar symbols drew attention to how reality is represented through such visual signs, and how we interpret them. ![]() Between 19, Jasper Johns developed his well-known repertory of flat images, including flags, targets, alphabets, words, maps, and numbers-subjects drawn not from popular culture so much as from human consciousness. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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