Items Similar to Rare Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition poster (Hand Signed by Jasper Johns)
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6
Jasper JohnsRare Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition poster (Hand Signed by Jasper Johns)1970
1970
$3,150
$4,50030% Off
£2,410.34
£3,443.3430% Off
€2,758.66
€3,940.9430% Off
CA$4,448.63
CA$6,355.1930% Off
A$4,834.90
A$6,90730% Off
CHF 2,591.06
CHF 3,701.5230% Off
MX$58,704.23
MX$83,863.1930% Off
NOK 32,529.22
NOK 46,470.3230% Off
SEK 30,165.91
SEK 43,094.1630% Off
DKK 20,603.76
DKK 29,433.9530% Off
About the Item
Jasper Johns, Prints, 1960-70 (Hand Signed by Jasper Johns), 1970
Offset lithograph poster (signed by Jasper Johns)
Boldly signed in black marker on the front
35 × 23 1/2 inches
Published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The artwork depicted in the poster is Jasper Johns lithograph "Souvenir", 1970
Unframed
Jasper Johns Biography:
Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South Carolina. He began drawing as a young child, and from the age of five knew he wanted to be an artist. For three semesters he attended the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where his art teachers urged him to move to New York, which he did in late 1948. There he saw numerous exhibitions and attended the Parsons School of Design for a semester. After serving two years in the army during the Korean War, stationed in South Carolina and Sendai, Japan, he returned to New York in 1953. He soon became friends with the artist Robert Rauschenberg (born 1925), also a Southerner, and with the composer John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Together with Rauschenberg and several Abstract Expressionist painters of the previous generation, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman, Johns is one of the most significant and influential American painters of the twentieth century. He also ranks with Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Munch, and Picasso as one of the greatest printmakers of any era. In addition, he makes many drawings—unique works on paper, usually based on a painting he has previously painted—and he has created an unusual body of sculptural objects.
Johns’ early mature work, of the mid- to late 1950s, invented a new style that helped to engender a number of subsequent art movements, among them Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual Art. The new style has usually been understood to be coolly antithetical to the expressionistic gestural abstraction of the previous generation. This is partly because, while Johns’ painting extended the allover compositional techniques of Abstract Expressionism, his use of these techniques stresses conscious control rather than spontaneity.
Johns’ early style is perfectly exemplified by the lush reticence of the large monochrome White Flag of 1955 (
1998.329
). This painting was preceded by a red, white, and blue version, Flag (1954–55; Museum of Modern Art, New York), and followed by numerous drawings and prints of flags in various mediums, including the elegant oil on paper Flag (1957; (
1999.425
)). In 1958, Johns painted Three Flags (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), in which three canvases are superimposed on one another in what appears to be reverse perspective, projecting toward the viewer.
The American flag subject is typical of Johns’ use of quotidian imagery in the mid- to late 1950s. As he explained, the imagery derives from “things the mind already knows,” utterly familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, ale cans, and, slightly later, maps of the U.S.
It has been suggested that the American flag in Johns’ work is an autobiographical reference, because a military hero after whom he was named, Sergeant William Jasper, raised the flag in a brave action during the Revolutionary War. Because a flag is a flat object, it may signify flatness or the relative lack of depth in much modernist painting. The flag may of course function as an emblem of the United States and may in turn connote American art, Senator Joseph McCarthy, or the Vietnam War, depending on the date of Johns’ use of the image, the date of the viewer’s experience of it, or the nationality of the viewer. Or the flag may connote none of these things. In Johns’ later work, for example The Seasons, a set of intaglio prints made in 1987 (
1999.407a–d
), it seems inescapably to refer to his own art. In other words, the meaning of the flag in Johns’ art suggests the extent to which the “meaning” of this subject matter may be fluid and open to continual reinterpretation.
As Johns became well known—and perhaps as he realized his audience could be relied upon to study his new work—his subjects with a demonstrable prior existence expanded. In addition to popular icons, Johns chose images that he identified in interviews as things he had seen—for example, a pattern of flagstones he glimpsed on a wall while driving. Still later, the “things the mind already knows” became details from famous works of art, such as the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald (1475/80–1528), which Johns began to trace onto his work in 1981. Throughout his career, Johns has included in most of his art certain marks and shapes that clearly display their derivation from factual, unimagined things in the world, including handprints and footprints, casts of parts of the body, or stamps made from objects found in his studio, such as the rim of a tin can.
-Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Creator:Jasper Johns (1930, American)
- Creation Year:1970
- Dimensions:Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745214958502
Jasper Johns
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.
Find original Jasper Johns art on 1stDibs.
About the Seller
5.0
Gold Seller
Premium sellers maintaining a 4.3+ rating and 24-hour response times
Established in 2007
1stDibs seller since 2022
469 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: New York, NY
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View AllJasper Johns at Ileana Sonnabend (rare early mid century modern European poster)
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns at Ileana Sonnabend, 1962
Offset Lithograph exhibition poster/invitation
Plate signed on the front
31 3/4 × 21 inches
Unframed
This rare, collectible vintage poster...
Category
1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
"Jasper Johns Paintings", vintage, collectible 1980s Leo Castelli Gallery poster
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
"Jasper Johns Paintings", vintage Leo Castelli Gallery poster, 1984
Offset lithograph
Unsigned
Unnumbered
30 × 22 1/2 inches
Unframed
Offset lithograph poster
published...
Category
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Jasper Johns poster (Hand signed and inscribed to Michael Crichton
s brother)
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns Drawings (Hand signed and inscribed to Michael Crichton's brother), 1980-1981
Color offset Lithograph poster for Margo Leavin Gallery exhibition
Signed, dated and dedicated in ink by Jasper Johns on the front
Vintage metal frame included
Jasper Johns’s first truly abstract artworks are his “Crosshatch” paintings and prints, which he developed from 1972 to 1983. These compositions feature hatched lines in various colors, though the term “Crosshatch” is a bit of a misnomer—Johns’s lines...
Category
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Painting with Two Balls Kunsthalle, Berlin hand signed
inscribed print, Framed
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Painting with Two Balls, Kunsthalle, Berlin, hand signed poster (Field 132), 1971
Offset lithograph (hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns)
Signed and inscribed in m...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Whitney Museum print hand signed inscribed by Jasper Johns to Museum conservator
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
The Drawings of Jasper Johns (hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns), 1991
Amazing provenance: Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and inscribed to Frank Martin, former conservator of the Whitney Museum)
Hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns on the front
Frame Included: matted in cream colored matting and held in original vintage frame
Jasper Johns signed and inscribed this poster to Jack Martin, former Head Preparator at the Whitney Museum.
This print was published by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the exhibition, "
The Drawings of Jasper Johns Whitney...
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Graphics and Drawings at the Louisiana Museum print, Hand Signed by Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Graphics and Drawings at the Louisiana Museum, Leo Castelli Collection (Hand Signed by Jasper Johns), 1992
Offset lithograph (Hand Signed and dated by Jasper Johns)
Signed and dated 7 March 1997 in black ink on the front (see close up photo)
Jasper Johns ink signature and date are on the outer yellow circle - see close up photo
Extremely rare collectible...
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
You May Also Like
Jasper Johns
1966 poster Recent Still Life - Museum of Art Rhode Island School
By Jasper Johns
Located in PARIS, FR
Jasper Johns' 1966 poster "Recent Still Life," created for the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), exemplifies the artist's innovative approach to everyday obj...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
0-9, Number 2 - Pop Art Lithograph by Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in Long Island City, NY
Found throughout his collection of work, Jasper Johns’s use of numbers is a common motif employed by the artist. While all of the prints in this series were produced from one lithogr...
Category
1960s Pop Art More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Jasper Johns SOUVENIR I Lithograph
By Jasper Johns
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930)
Marking(s); notes: signed and dated in pencil, label; ed. 42/63; 1972
Materials: Angoumois a la Main paper
Dimensions ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jasper Johns
Summer (1987)
1991- Poster
By Jasper Johns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 34.5 x 21.75 inches ( 87.63 x 55.245 cm )
Image Size: 29 x 21 inches ( 73.66 x 53.34 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Supplement...
Category
1990s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$60 Sale Price
20% Off
"Souvenir I" Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colors
By Jasper Johns
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Jasper Johns b.1930
Souvenir I
1972
lithograph in colors on Angoumois à la Main
38½ h × 29½ w in (98 × 75 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘42/63 Jasper Johns '72’. This ...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Jasper Johns Poster, Leo Castelli Gallery 1970
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph poster for an exhibition of Jasper Johns drawings held at New York City’s Leo Castelli Gallery from January 10-January 31, 1970. Shows the image “Two Flags,” a grap...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Read More
Why Jasper Johns Is So Much More Than a Maker of Aloof Pop Art
A retrospective spanning two major East Coast museums demonstrates Johns’s massive role in contemporary art history. © 2021 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Philadelphia Museum of Art Photo Studio; Joseph Hu
Welcome (Back) to the Wild, Wonderful World of Walasse Ting
Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
More Ways To Browse
Vintage Philadelphia Poster
Joan Miro Revolutions Sceniques Du Xxe Siecle I
Jorg Schmeisser
Josef Albers Yellow
Kandinsky And Etching
Kaws Snoopy
Krakow Vintage Poster
Lennart Nystrom
Lichtenstein Silkscreen
Luciano Castelli
Milan Lukac
Motherwell Africa Suite
Mourlot Corbusier
Pablo Eduardo
Pepe Tanzi
Peter Max Signed Flowers
Philip Guston Prints
Picasso Affiches