Ode to Jasper Johns, Pair of Rusty c. 1950s Flat Top Ballantine Beer Cans low relief carving all the more so for

all the more so for missing an ear on one side of it

whether a screen or a box or otherwise

But pretty wonderful

13 7/8” t x 9” l x 11/16” thick and in very good condition

and also love that it feels very much a product of the thinking of Harvey himself as opposed to a notebook just keeping to assignments

Ode to Jasper Johns, Pair of Rusty c. 1950s Flat Top Ballantine Beer Cans low relief carving all the more so forSold: set A I found a handful of old Ballantine beer cans a few years ago, which I bought in homage to Jasper Johns, who made them icons of art history through his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960. As the story goes, Bill de Kooning told Johns "you could give that son of a bitch two beer cans and he could sell them," referring to Leo Castelli, to which Johns responded, "what a wonderful idea for a sculpture. Of course there is much more to the story