Jasper Johns

Two Flags (Whitney Anniversary Poster)

1980

Large white poster with scattered black stencil letters forming fragmented words along the bottom.
Large white poster with scattered black stencil letters forming fragmented words along the bottom.

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Date
1980

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 50 × 33 3/4 in. (127 × 85.7 cm) Image: 5 × 26 in. (12.7 × 66 cm)

Accession number
2001.311.10

Edition
EB 1/2 | 11 APs, 11 TPs, RTP, PP II, 3 GEL, 14 EB, 2 C

Publication
Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.

Credit line
Gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/21117

Part of a series:
Two Flags (Whitney Anniversary)
11 works

Two distressed black-and-white American flags printed one above the other on white paper.
Two stylized American flags stacked vertically with hand-painted stars and stripes.
A distressed black and white American flag with text marking the Whitney Museum's 50th anniversary in 1980.
A black-and-white print of two distressed American flags with smeared, dripping stripes and stars.
Abstract print with irregular black horizontal bars and scattered stamped letters along the bottom.
Two distressed black flag-like star panels above scattered stenciled letters on a white background.
Large blank white poster with scattered black stamped letters arranged along the bottom edge.
Poster with stacked black horizontal bars and scattered stencil letters across the bottom.
Two black rectangles filled with white stars appear above scattered stenciled letters on a white background.
Large white poster with scattered black stencil letters forming fragmented words along the bottom.

Jasper Johns
215 works in the collection, 44 exhibitions

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