“As I warmed up to this work, I realized that a work can be inscrutable and you can still love it.”
Curator Ian Alteveer on Jasper Johns’s 1955 painting White Flag.
Below the Surface
Ian Alteveer
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Ian Alteveer
Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Photography by Karin L. Willis
Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Art Mentioned
Jasper Johns
1955
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