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SLIDESHOW: ''Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print''

May 22 2012 – Aug 18 2012 | Arthur M. Sackler Museum

By PHOENIX STAFF | May 31, 2012

Jasper Johns, with master printer Donn Steward at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Long Island, New York, 0 through 9, from the portfolio 1st Etchings, Second State, 1969. Etching and open bite on Auvergne paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Frederick B. and Virginia Herrick Deknatel in honor of John Coolidge, M25317. Art © Jasper Johns and ULAE/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Published by ULAE. Photo: Digital Imaging and Visual Resources, Harvard Art Museums, © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

"Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print" | Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge | Through August 18, 2012

READ: "Jasper Johns cools it" by Greg Cook

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