An envelope with a small watercolor American flag, pencil sketches, typed addresses, and postage stamps.

Drawings

Flag Study

1959

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on found paper (recto); graphite pencil on paper (verso)
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm) Image (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm)
Accession number
2016.163a-b
Acquired
2016
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President
Reproduction credit
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Jasper Johns, Flag Study, 1959. Watercolor and graphite on found paper (recto); graphite pencil on paper (verso), sheet (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm) Image (sight): 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (10.5 × 24.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2016.163a-b. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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