Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Nines
Image View:
Overall view, with string along the right side of the canvas
Creator:
Jasper Johns (American painter, born 1930)
Location:
repository: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) 139-2015-1
Location Note:
Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' (Exhibition, February 10-May 13, 2018)
Date:
2006 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
encaustic; oil paint; wood and canvas with string
Technique:
encaustic painting (technique)
Measurements:
186.1 cm (height) x 141 cm (width) x 18.4 cm (depth)
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present)
Description:
Johns’ "Nines," is a hinged piece of wood painted with interlocking shapes in blue, red and yellow, evoking a flagstone floor that was the artist’s inspiration. Promised gift to the museum of Keith L. and Katherine Sachs. (Source: Philadephia Museum of Art [website]; https://www.philamus eum.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-NIN-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Nines