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Signs & Symbols:
Audio guide stop for Jasper Johns, White Target, 1957 Collect

Jasper Johns (b. 1930), White Target, 1957. Wax and oil on canvas, Overall (Canvas): 30 × 30in. (76.2 × 76.2cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 71.211. Art © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Signs & Symbols audio guide playlist

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This audio guide highlights selected works from the exhibition Signs & Symbols, focusing on the development of American abstraction after World War II.

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1.	Audio guide stop for Introduction to Signs & Symbols	COLLECT
2.	Audio guide stop for Louise Bourgeois, One and Others, 1955	COLLECT
3.	Audio guide stop for Mark Tobey, Universal Field, 1949	COLLECT
4.	Audio guide stop for Will Barnet, Male and Female, 1954	COLLECT
5.	Audio guide stop for Steve Wheeler, Laughing Boy Rolling, 1946	COLLECT
6.	Audio guide stop for Forrest Bess, Drawings, 1957	COLLECT
7.	Audio guide stop for Mark Rothko, Agitation of the Archaic, 1944	COLLECT
8.	Audio guide stop for Adolph Gottlieb, Vigil, 1948	COLLECT
9.	Audio guide stop for Aaron Siskind	COLLECT
10.	Audio guide stop for Helen Levitt	COLLECT
11.	Audio guide stop for Alexander Calder, The Brass Family, 1929	COLLECT
12.	Audio guide stop for Jackson Pollock, Untitled, c. 1939–42	COLLECT
13.	Audio guide stop for Richard Pousette-Dart, The Magnificent, 1950–51	COLLECT
14.	Audio guide stop for Isamu Noguchi, The Gunas, 1946	COLLECT
15.	Audio guide stop for Alfred Jensen, A Perfect Equal Area I, 1960	COLLECT
16.	Audio guide stop for Jasper Johns, White Target, 1957	COLLECT