Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns

November 2009, Behind the Scenes - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The prints of Jasper Johns are heralded for their beauty as well as their conceptual and psychological complexity. A group of the artist's working proofs�prints pulled during the working process on which Johns made drawn and painted additions, recently acquired from the artist by the National Gallery of Art�are showcased here as independent works of art for the first time. On the occasion of the exhibition, curator Fine talks to host Barbara Tempchin about this extraordinary body of work.