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The exhibition examines the use of the color gray by the American
artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) between the mid-1950s and the present. It
brings together more than 120 paintings, reliefs, drawings, prints, and
sculptures from American and international collections. Johns has
worked in gray, at times to evoke a mood, at other times to evoke an
intellectual rigor that results from his purging most color from his
works. This exhibition is the first to focus on this important thematic
and formal thread in Johns's career and includes some of the artist's
best-known works, such as Canvas, Gray Target, Jubilee, 0 through 9, No, Diver, and The Dutch Wives, as well as works from the artist's Catenary series and new paintings never before exhibited.