About This Artwork
Target II1967-69
Etching and aquatint from one copper plate in black on white wove paper
95 x 95 mm (image/plate); 298 x 195 mm (sheet)
U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; restricted gift of supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund, 1982.969
Universal Limited Art Editions 81 artist's proof; Field 65; Sparks 99 artist's proof
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
From 1967 to 1969 Johns worked intensively in etching, creating two significant portfolios entitled 1st Etchings (1967–68) and 1st Etchings, 2nd State (1967–68). The artist returned to his tiny target plate, and using the skills he had acquired the previous two years, he reworked the plate, transforming it into this luminous state.