Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Decoy
Image View:
Overall view
Creator:
Jasper Johns (American printmaker, born 1930)
Location:
repository: Tate Modern (London, England, United Kingdom) P07380
Location Note:
Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' (Exhibition, February 10-May 13, 2018)
Date:
1971 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
lithograph
Classification:
Prints
Material:
printers ink on paper
Technique:
lithography; offset printing
Measurements:
105.5 cm (height) x 75.2 cm (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); typography or calligraphy
Description:
Lithograph, printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, New York. 'Decoy' represents the first use by an artist of the hand-fed offset lithography press (originally bought by ULAE for proofing only). Johns took advantage of the press which enabled a faster pace of alternate trials, alterations and color sequence changes, and also a larger number of subtle over-printings on one print. 'Decoy' contains reworkings of a number of images, among them: a Ballantine ale can from 'Painted Bronze' 1960; the letters of the names of colors and the leg cast from 'Passage II' 1966 (oil on canvas). Edition of 55. (Source: Tate Gallery [website]; http://www.tate.org. uk)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-D71-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Decoy