The Critic Smiles, 1966

Not on View

lithograph (stone) in black and hand-colored in silver, gold, and aluminum on handmade English Chatam paper

sheet: 63.82 × 51.12 cm (25 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

ULAE, no. 025

1976.56.72

Jasper Johns (artist) American, born 1930

Ben Burns (printer)

lower left, in colored pencil: The Critic Smiles / 27/40 / J Johns / 1966

blind stamp: [chop of Universal Limited Art Editions]

Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1976 by the National Gallery of Art

Woodward Foundation

2012: "Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme" The Phillips Collection, Washington (Jun - Sep 2012)

1970: Field, Richard S. Jasper Johns: Prints 1960-1970. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, no.

1994: Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 25.