#I'd say buy the book but the book is six books and weighs forty pounds and costs six hundred dollars

[gregdotorg]

This week I went through all six volumes of Jasper Johns' drawings catalogue raisonné for the first time, and made a little pile of pictures I found. Including the watercolor (and fluorescent spraypaint?) flag on orange ground he made in 1957 on a page from an old yearbook, which he gave to his boyfriend Robert Rauschenberg's ex-wife Susan Weil [top]

And a 1969 picture I'd heard about, because it makes the flags into self-portraits, which is the first time he made a vertical composition with two flags, and where he put the title on the back as TWO [F-SLURS].

Anyway, curators are great, but so is going through an artist's 60 years of drawing in chronological order and seeing every thing.