Jasper Johns

Light Bulb
1967

An etching of an abstract composition featuring a central, shoe-like form on a platform, surrounded by various lines and shapes that suggest a landscape or background. The artwork has a sketch-like quality with visible hatching and cross-hatching, and is signed by the artist in the lower right corner.

An etching of an abstract composition featuring a central, shoe-like form on a platform, surrounded by various lines and shapes that suggest a landscape or background. The artwork has a sketch-like quality with visible hatching and cross-hatching, and is signed by the artist in the lower right corner.

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Date
1967

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 12 7/8 × 16 3/8in. (32.7 × 41.6 cm) Plate: 8 1/4 × 12 1/4in. (21 × 31.1 cm)

Accession number
69.117

Edition
12/12

Publication
Printed by Donn Steward; published by Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc.

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

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

API
artworks/4440

Exhibitions

Approaching Objects

Jan 10–May 31, 2003

Jasper Johns
212 works in the collection

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