• Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina, with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed.
  • Detail of Flag 1954–55, Museum of Modern Art, New York. This image illustrates Johns's early technique of painting with encaustic over a collage made from found materials such...
  • Hailed a forefather of Conceptual, Minimal, and Pop Art, Jasper Johns is often considered one of the most technically talented American artists alive today.
  • Jasper Johns first painted the American flag in 1954–1955 aged 24, and it's been a frequently recurring motif in his practice ever since.
  • Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to Johns’s art.
  • The great merit of the Jasper Johns retrospectives, shown simultaneously at the Whitney Museum in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is that it gives...
  • In 1958, Leo Castelli visited the museum of Rauscenburg, and this was the first time he had seen any of the work created by Jasper Johns.
  • Born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns grew up in rural South Carolina and lived with his paternal grandparents after his parents divorced when he was...
  • Jasper Johns turned the mighty US flag into simple paintings and elevated everyday objects into expensive works of art.
  • ...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...