Word: johnses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jasper Johns' New York retrospective
Jasper Johns, considered by many people the greatest artist at work in America, has been in the public eye for not quite 20 years. It seems longer. No art career pupated more quickly. Johns appeared in 1958 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, a reclusive young Southerner from Augusta, Ga., who...
From that moment, Johns' work, slowly done and irregularly seen, served as a still, enigmatic center to the turmoil it had helped provoke. In Johns, the '50s artist-imagined as "hot," expressive and tragic-was displaced by the didactic painter-hero of the '60s; a man of...
Between 1955 and '61, Jasper Johns invented most of his principal motifs: the targets, the stenciled words and numbers, the rulers, the fragments of human anatomy, the American map, the American flag. No period in his later work would equal this one for vitality and daring. A work like...
After graduating cum laude from Harvard College, Wharton studied at the University of Chicago, and at the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, where he was the first black to be admitted.