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MoMA Staff
Organizer
Stuart Wrede
American, born Finland 1944
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
19 June 1988
THE UNFLAGGING ARTISTRY OF JASPER JOHNS
LEAD: IN 1959, WHEN JASPER JOHNS was 29 years old, a photograph appeared in Time magazine that shows him standing beside one of his paintings. A slim, brooding young man dressed in a coat and tie, Johns radiates the sort of demonic intensity the public no doubt expected of him. He was, after all, ''the brand-new darling of the art world's bright, brittle avant-garde,'' as the accompanying article explained.
New York Times • Magazine • page 20 • 4,263 words