In good overall condition.
Signed and dated lower right; edition numbered lower left.
There are several tiny brown spots to the upper area of the sheet.
There is very light time staining to the margins.

Publisher: Petersburg Press, New York and London



This work is made in what is known as the flagstone style, with a pattern resembling a stone wall appearing across the entire surface. It is said to have been inspired by a wall Johns glimpsed from a taxi in Harlem while on his way to the airport. Upon entering the 1970s, Johns began producing works that departed significantly from his earlier imagery of flags, targets, and numerals. Yet when one considers that the wall design was not of his own creation but simply something he appropriated, it becomes clear that his fundamental approach to making art had not changed.