Jasper Johns, Flag Study, 1959. Watercolor and graphite on found paper (recto); graphite pencil on paper (verso), sheet (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm) Image (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2016.163a-b. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Not on view
Date
1959
Classification
Drawings
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on found paper (recto); graphite pencil on paper (verso)
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm)
Image (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm)
Accession number
2016.163a-b
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President
Rights and reproductions
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Exhibitions
Installation photography
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Installation view of Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 28, 2017–June 2, 2019). From left to right, top to bottom: Larry Rivers, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1960; Ilse Bing, Play of Sounds, American Flag, 1931; Daniel Chester French, Standing Lincoln, 1912; Joseph Pennell, Hail America, 1908, Bernada Bryson Shahn, 30,000,000 Immigrants, 1935–36; George Grosz, Waving the Flag, 1947–48; Diane Arbus, Max Maxwell Landar, Uncle Sam, N.Y.C., 1961; Jasper Johns, Flag Study, 1959; Andreas Feininger, U.S. Steel, Blooming Mill, 1944; Andreas Feininger, Drop Forge, 1944; Margaret Bourke-White, Industrial Rayon Corporation. Painesville, Ohio, 1939; Jared French, State Park, 1946. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960