American painter Jasper Johns shook up the art world by reconceptualizing common icons like targets, numbers, and letters—and it all began in 1954 with Flag. 1.

Breaking Ground with Iconic Symbols: In the mid-1950s, Jasper Johns burst onto the art scene with a series of groundbreaking works featuring American flags, targets, numbers, and letters.

Johns bought the rustic home in 1973 for $48,000, and expanded the space and installed four floor-to-ceiling garage-door style rollup windows.

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The retrospective spans Jasper Johns' 60-plus-year career. And when you've filled up on art, head to Stir for Chef Mark Tropea's inspired menu.

Renowned for his paintings of the American flag, Johns, now 91, is one of the world’s most influential living artists. But he is famously reluctant to speak about his work.

Jasper Johns’s famous romantic relationship with Robert Rauschenberg is alluded to and used to frame a number of early-‘60s works, made after their breakup.

For almost seven decades, we have known Jasper Johns mostly by a narrow and repetitive set of signatures: flags, targets, numbers, a Savarin coffee can holding a bouquet of brushes.

Johns has often been burdened with overinterpretation despite his stated commitment, early on, to dealing with “things the mind already knows,” starting with flags, targets, numbers, and maps ...

Jasper Johns: “Dying While on Assignment Doesn’t Seem Like a Bad Idea” 4 minute read Artist Jasper Johns in his studio, a converted horse barn, in Sharon, Conn., on February 2, 2018.

“Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” a mammoth exhibition at the Whitney in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, runs through Feb. 13.