Jasper Johns, Racing Thoughts, 1983. Encaustic and collage on canvas, 48 1/8 × 75 3/8 in. (122.2 × 191.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome ...

Jasper Johns, "Green Angel" (1990), encaustic and sand on canvas, 75 1/8 x 50 1/4 inches. Stenciled on front, upper right: J. JOHNS 1990 / ST. MARTIN, F.W.I ...

He's one of the three most important American artists from the 20th century, alongside Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. He's probably the most important living American artist, if you believe the ...

Before you see “Jasper Johns: Gray” at the Met, make a detour to the museum’s Egyptian wing and look at the 1,900-year-old mummy painting Portrait of the Boy Eutyches. Note the layered translucency of ...

Jasper Johns in his studio (c. 1976–80) (© 1991 Hans Namuth Estate; photo Hans Namuth, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona) In his poem “My Heart Leaps Up” (1802), William ...

From the richness of his early targets and flags to the crammed canvases of his later years, this retrospective charts the great American’s six-decade journey from master of nuance to king of ...

To say that Jasper Johns is ambivalent about having to discuss the intentions or meanings behind his art would imply that there is some part of it he doesn’t find distasteful. Johns has always been ...

Flag is magnificent: a vision of glory in blood red, deep blue and the white of whipped waves. Each star on this spangled banner has a different character – pristine, ungainly, hiding beneath the ...