Deaccession of a Jasper Johns.
It was wonderful to have found a new home for this amazing and seminal print from Jasper Johns. Two Maps II (1966) looked amazing on the booth with David Zwirner Gallery during the exceptionally well-attended IFDPA Print and Works on Paper fair here in New York.
Johns employed the use of a common map found in American classrooms. The chalk-like outline and the twinned image, however, carries a ghostly feel to it—underpinning questions about what we are taught versus what know—during a time of political upheaval in the US.
Other versions of Two Maps images are in the collection of the MOMA, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the RISD Museum, Providence; the British Museum, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.