Untitled

Untitled

Jasper Johns

1969

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This drawing shows a simple scene in gray tones. A roof slopes down from the top left, with a small, straight rooftop edge cutting across the middle. Below it, a textured wall stretches to the bottom, marked by a thin vertical line that looks like a pole or post. The paper has a rough, uneven surface, almost like worn concrete. The artist used soft pencil and wash to blur edges, making the shapes feel rough and unfinished. The gray tones make it hard to tell where one object ends and another begins. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists build texture with lines.

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