Midcentury Masters: Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA

Midcentury Masters:

Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA

In 1999, Jasper Johns gave the CMA 39 works from his personal collection. Some are by Johns himself; others are by artists he admired, like Josef Albers, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.

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Jasper Johns is one of most influential American artists of the 20th century. He painted symbols like numbers and flags, things that were ordinary, things that, in his words, existed as clear facts “not involving an aesthetic hierarchy.” This radical vision led to the art movements known as minimalism and pop art.

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In This Exhibition

Untitled (Still Life with Lemon and Glass)

Roy Lichtenstein
American, 1923-1997
Untitled (Still Life with Lemon and Glass), 1974
embossed lithograph and screenprint, 21/100
Fiftieth Anniversary Acquisition, Gift of Jasper Johns
1999.30.8.5
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Noname (Elephant)

Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925-2008
Noname (Elephant), 1973
solvent transfer from broken stone embossment, hand painted gesso with tape
collage, 21/100
Fiftieth Anniversary Acquisition, Gift of Jasper Johns,1999.30.8.9
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Plot

Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925-2008
Plot, 1973
collage with embossing and silkscreen
Fiftieth Anniversary Acquisition, Gift of Jasper Johns, 1999.30.9.5
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Midcentury Masters: Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA