Prints
Jasper Johns
Prints
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns
Untitled (Catalog Cover), 1977
In 1977, Brooke Alexander collaborated with Jasper Johns to create an exhibition presenting the artist’s silkscreen editions. This effort was complimented by the publication of a wonderful exhibition catalog, complete with a thoughtful essay by Richard S. Field, and an original silkscreen wrap-around cover. This considered approach is indicative of Brooke Alexander’s print publishing and exhibition programs, as well as the fruitful relationship the two would share through to today.
Indeed, Brooke Alexander would go on to create several in-depth exhibitions of the prints of Jasper Johns, each focusing on distinctive aspects of his oeuvre. In 1985, Brooke Alexander presented “Jasper Johns: Trial Proof And Proofs With Additions.” Here, the individual choices and unique variances lent an introspective examination of the reconstituted image, ranging from Numbers to Ale Cans.
“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ”
In 1991, a third expansive collaboration was realized in the exhibition “Jasper Johns: The Seasons.” A hybrid of the two previous approaches, this exhibition combined the full documentation of a defined series, with the inclusion of all of the unique variations that show how Johns thinks through subjects and techniques. As in 1977, the catalog accompanying The Seasons included its own original Johns print: Summer (Green).
The Seasons, 1989
The Seasons Nov 9,1991-Jan 4,1992
“My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.”
References to Barnett Newman Nov 18,1999-Jan 15,2000
Philip Guston/Jasper Johns Oct 25 - Dec 22, 2007
In addition, for many years, Brooke Alexander was a board member of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The FCA was founded in the early 1960s by Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham and others to sponsor and encourage numerous individual artists, art groups and organizations around the country. The important work of the FCA continues, and you can learn more about their mission here: https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/
“The legendary printmaker Tatyana Grosman used to say that Johns had been so often disappointed as a child that he’d trained himself to think only of the present. Which may have everything to do with the fact that he is more interested in making art that asks ‘What happens if….?’ and comes out of some system he has invented, rather than art laden with meaning - however much meaning creeps in nevertheless.”
-Amei Wallach, review 1991
Jasper Johns
0 Through 9, 1977
lithograph
10 x 7 1/2 in. / 19.05 x 19 cm
Edition #37/63
Ref: ULAE no.181
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Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1977
screenprint: catalogue cover edition
10 x 10 in. / 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Edition of 3000
Unsigned
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Jasper Johns
Light Bulb, 1966
lithograph
19 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. / 49.5 x 62.2 cm
Edition #13/45
Ref. ULAE no.24
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Jasper Johns
Face With Watch, 1996
etching and aquatint
42 x 31 3/4 in. / 106.7 x 80.7 cm
Edition #17/50
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Jasper Johns
Savarin 1 (Cookie), 1978
lithograph
26 x 20 1/2 in. / 66 x 52.1 cm
Edition #34/42
Ref: ULAE no.191
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Jasper Johns
Summer (Blue), 1985-1991
color lithograph
16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. / 41.3 x 28.6 cm
Edition of 225
Ref: ULAE no.254
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Jasper Johns
Winter, 1986-89
lithograph
15 x 11 in. / 38.1 x 27.9 cm
Edition #17/34
Ref: ULAE no.248
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Jasper Johns
Greenville County Museum of Art Poster, 1974
color offset lithograph
34 x 31 in. / 86.4 x 78.7 cm
Signed
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Jasper Johns: The Seasons
illustrated catalogue with original lithograph frontispiece by the artist.
Essay by Roberta Bernstein.
60 pages, includes print exhibition history and bibliography.
11 x 8 1/2 inches (closed)
Published by Brooke Alexander Editions, 1991.
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Jasper Johns
Savarin 4 (Oval), 1978
lithograph
26 x 20 1/2 in. / 66 x 52.1 cm
Edition #37/42
Ref: ULAE no.194
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Jasper Johns
Target II, 1967-69
etching and aquatint
11 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. / 29.8 x 19.7 cm
Edition #28/29
Ref: ULAE no.81
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Jasper Johns
Voice, 1966-67
lithograph
48 1/4 x 31 3/4 in. / 122.6 x 80.6 cm
Edition #15/30
Ref: ULAE no.31
Jasper Johns
Cicada, 1981
lithograph
35 x 26 in. / 88.9 x 66 cm
Edition #50/50
Ref: ULAE no.219
Jasper Johns
The Seasons, 1990
etching and aquatint
50 1/4 x 44 1/2 in. / 127.6 x 113 cm
Edition #38/50
Ref: ULAE no.249
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Jasper Johns
Winter, 1986
Intaglio
16 x 12 in. / 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Edition #25/34
Ref: ULAE no.237
“A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.”
Jasper Johns Installation, December, 1977