Jasper Johns Works Online
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Original works by Jasper Johns available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Mini-site for the 2007 exhibition Jasper Johns: Gray
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Jasper Johns at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Jasper Johns: A Retrospective
Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
24 works by Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns"
Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Perilous Night
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Figure 1
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled, 1999
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Target, drawing
Broad Art Foundation
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Figure 8
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Dutch Wives
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Corpse and Mirror
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Painting with Two Balls
The Dutch Wives
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
The Seasons (Fall), 1987
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Untitled, 1991
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Information about a 2006 exhibition
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Green Angel, 1990
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #20
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "J"
Jasper Johns in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
5 works listed, the only one of which can be magnified is: Untitled
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Flags II
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian) 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
In Memory of My Feelings - Frank O'Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
"Jasper Johns: Light Bulb"
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Green Angel, 1991
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Targets, lithograph, 1967-68
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Fragment According to What Series - Bent Blue, 1971
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Color Numeral, Figure 2
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
#1 (After Untitled 1975), lithograph, 1976
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Bread
Jasper Johns at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Menil Collection, Texas
Corpse, 1974-75
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Usuyuki, 1979-81
Villa Croce Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)
Corpse and Mirror, 1976
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Between the Clock and the Bed, 1983
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
Figure 8, 1959
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 194
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Target with Four Faces
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Three Flags
PBase Photo Sharing
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USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Savarin, 18/50, 1977
PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jasper Johns 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- "At 78, Jasper Johns is one of the most coveted living artists - and for years he was also the most expensive, with an auction record of $17.4 million. But Johns's true art-market distinction is his staying power."
Art + Auction Magazine
Target, 1961
ARTnews
Named as one of "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists"
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Modern Painters Magazine
Target, 1958
New York Magazine
"Éminence Grise", 2008 article by Jerry Saltz
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Slate Magazine
"Capture the Flag: Jasper Johns' own private icon," article by Louis Menand
The Art Story
The Brooklyn Rail
Interview with the artist
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"The pop artist who ate himself", 2004 article by Adrian Searle
The New York Review of Books
"Jasper Johns: Gray", 2008 review by Richard Dorment
The New Yorker
"Jasper Johns: Catenary" at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine
"Pictures at an Inhibition", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Venice Biennale Bounces Back", 1988 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Behind the Sacred Aura", 1996 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Jasper Johns's 0 through 9
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
Curator Jeffrey Weiss talks about a 2007 exhibit of Johns' work at the National Gallery
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Jasper Johns: Catenary
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Johns: Cameo
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Jasper Johns: Writings, Sketchbook Notes, Interviews
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