Beyond a Supporting Role — Paper in Jasper Johns’ Prints

In-Person and Members Only

Join Shelley R. Langdale, Curator and Head of Modern Prints and Drawings, and Amy Hughes, Paper Conservator, in the Modern Prints & Drawings study room to look at selected works from the National Gallery of Art’s archive of Jasper Johns’s print proofs. The archive, numbering over 1,700 trial and working proofs, was acquired directly from Jasper Johns between 2007-2011. These objects allow us the unprecedented opportunity to better understand the choices made by the artist and his master printers during the creation of an edition. We will focus not only on the printed images, but also on the stunning variety of unusual paper supports selected by the artist – a topic that Amy Hughes has studied in depth.