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Jasper Johns «Map»
Jasper Johns, «Map», 1961
© Jasper Johns
Oil on canvas, , 1961
 


 
 

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United States | 312,17*198,1cm cm (W*H) | Öl auf Leinwand/oil on canvas | Archive / Collection: Museum of Modern Art, New York
 

 Jasper Johns

b in 1930 at Augusta, Georgia (U.S.A.). He grew up in South Carolina. He was drafted into the army and stationed in Japan. Between 1949 and 1951 he studied at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. From 1952 to 1958 he worked in a bookshop in New York. He also did display work with Robert Rauschenberg for Bonwit Teller and Tiffany. In 1954 he painted his first flag picture. He had his first one-man exhibition in 1958 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. In 1959 he took part with Rauschenberg in Allan Kaprow's «Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts.» In 1960 he began working with lithographs, and in 1961 he did his first large map picture. Today, Jasper Johns is regarded as one of the most important American painters of the 20th century.