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Perilous Night Jasper Johns  
       
Jasper Johns self portrait
Ben Martin, Jasper Johns, Age 29, at Castelli Gallery with Target Painting, Rudi Belsh Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

 

 

Biography

Jasper Johns was born in 1930 and spent his childhood moving from town to town in South Carolina, often living with relatives, during the Depression. He began drawing as a child, and by the age of five he dreamed of becoming an artist.



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