A press release for Jasper Johns’s 1958 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.

Johns’s use of everyday subject matter seemed to eliminate creativity from artmaking, but his visible brushstrokes in thickly applied paint called attention to process and underscored his paintings as original works of art.

Citation Information
Leo Castelli Gallery, “Press release for Jasper Johns--Paintings exhibit,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/cc203d16798340c7f8adb8566593b36a.
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Courtesy of Archives of American Art via Smithsonian Institution.

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