Target

Universal Limited Art Editions|Robert Blackburn|Jasper Johns

1960 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Florence and Joseph Singer were discerning collectors of contemporary American prints. Among the more than one hundred works they gifted to The Met were thirty-one important early prints and portfolios by Johns, including Target, the first print he editioned and published. In 1960, Tatyana Grosman gave Johns a lithographic stone to entice him to make prints at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), her fine art print publishing company. Johns, new to the technique, drew a bull’s-eye-like target on the stone as it was easy to create, symmetrical, and did not need to be drawn in reverse. As both image and object, the target is a motif closely associated with Johns. He debuted the form in 1955 and has subsequently engaged it in various configurations and mediums over the decades.

Artist

Universal Limited Art Editions|Robert Blackburn|Jasper Johns

Date

1960

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Florence and Joseph Singer Collection, 1967