Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: 0 through 9

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
0 through 9
Image View: 
Overall view
Creator: 
Jasper Johns (American painter, born 1930)
Location: 
repository: Tate Modern (London, England, United Kingdom) T00454
Location Note: 
Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' (Exhibition, February 10-May 13, 2018)
Date: 
1961 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
American
Style Period: 
Pop; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
137 cm (height) x 105 cm (width)
Subjects: 
abstraction; typography or calligraphy
Description: 
This large work, rendered in distinct areas of red, blue and golden yellow, presents the viewer with the numerical figures 0-9, each scaled to fill the whole canvas and superimposed over one another. 0 through 9 was made by Johns in 1961 when he was living in New York. It is one of a series of twelve works by the artist, some produced in editions, that show the numbers 0 to 9 superimposed over one another. The series began with a drawing of 1960 (Museum of Modern Art, New York). In total, there are five paintings in the series the same size, including one made using a grey monochrome technique known as grisaille. Johns also made three smaller paintings on paper, a metallic relief, a pastel and a lithograph. (Source: Tate Gallery [website]; http://www.tate.org.uk)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-0T9-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.