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American, b. 1930

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker born on May 15, 1930. He eventually became one of America's best known post–Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists.

Johns's name is most often associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers and Pop art subjects that he depicted in Minimalist style with an emphasis on linearity, repetition and symmetry. He completed his first flag painting in 1955, alphabet subjects in 1956, sculpture in 1958 and lithographs in 1960.

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Creator: Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns by Mark Rosenthal, Museum Edition Trade Paperback, 1988
By Jasper Johns
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    Jasper Johns uses a variety of media to produce his artwork. One of the best-known post–Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists, the American artist is a painter, sculptor and printmaker. He is most associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers and Pop art subjects that he depicts in a Minimalist style with an emphasis on linearity, repetition and symmetry. Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955; alphabet subjects in 1956; sculpture in 1958; and lithographs in 1960. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of Jasper Johns art.
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