Untitled #4
Date1983
Artist
Martin Brian Johnson
(American painter and sculptor, born 1951)
MediumAcrylic, enamel, graphite and ink on paper
Dimensionssheet: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-36
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextUntitled #4 is related to a series of similar work Martin Johnson has been making since the mid-1980s. Johnson's paintings combine Conceptual art's concern for linguistics with the strong visual imagery and color associated with graffiti art of the late 1970s and 1980s. The punched black band at the top of the paper signifies the regularized passage of time.
