Skin with O'Hara Poem
Jasper Johns
1963–1965
- Medium
- Lithograph in black from two stones on commercially printed off-white semi-transparent wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 53.9 × 83.9 cm (21 1/4 × 33 1/16 in.); Sheet: 55.9 × 86.3 cm (22 1/16 × 34 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
In 1963, Johns began a series of prints that featured his own body parts as their principal imagery. As with Pinion, the artist spent more time than usual completing these prints. This print closely echoes a 1962 drawing, Study for Skin I. Prophetically, Johns included a poem by Frank O’Hara, who would die in 1966.
