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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. American painter (born 1930) For the Welsh Liberal politician, see Jasper Wilson Johns. For the English soccer player, see Jasper Johns (footballer). For the non-fiction book by Michael Crichton, see Jasper Johns (book). Jasper Johns Johns receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in ...
Slice is a 2020 oil painting by the American artist Jasper Johns.. The work is a horizontal, mostly black oil painting that contains references to two outside sources: an anatomical diagram of a knee drawn by a Cameroonian emigre student Jéan-Marc Togodgue; and a map of the distribution of galaxies in a slice of the universe by Valérie de Lapparent, Margaret Geller, and John Huchra with ...
Jasper Johns, possibly America’s most famous living artist and still plying his trade at 91, launches two retrospectives on Sept. 29; one at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City ...
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($154 million in 2023 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...
Map is a 1961 oil-on-canvas painting by Jasper Johns.It represents the overall proportions and shapes of the states of the United States and parts of Mexico and Canada, although executed with a more "energetic application of paint" [1] than found in cartography.
The painting is a relatively early example of the many works created by Johns from 1954, inspired by a dream of the U.S. flag. Painted on canvas using encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal, White Flag is the first monochrome rendering of the US flag by Johns. Measuring 198.9 centimetres (78.3 in) by 306.7 centimetres (120.7 in), it is also ...
Three Flags is a painting by American artist Jasper Johns, from 1958. Held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York since 1980, Three Flags has been described as a "landmark of 20th-century art ".
Glynis Johns, the British actor better known to audiences as the pro-suffrage mother in “Mary Poppins,” has died. She was 100. The actor’s manager of 25 years, Mitch Clem, confirmed in a ...