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| Jasper Johns Untitled 1960 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jasper Johns Zero through Nine 1961 oil on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jasper Johns Device 1961-62 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Jasper Johns Slow Field 1962 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Hans Namuth Jasper Johns 1962 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jasper Johns Targets 1966 acrylic on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jasper Johns Targets 1967-68 lithograph Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jasper Johns Self Portrait 1970 lithograph National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jasper Johns Decoy II 1971-73 lithograph Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jasper Johns Untitled 1972 lithographs (four sheets) Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Jasper Johns Periscope I 1979 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jasper Johns Two Flags 1980 lithograph (poster) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jasper Johns Untitled 1983 colored inks on plastic Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Irving Penn Jasper Johns 1983 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jasper Johns Racing Thoughts 1983 mixed media on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jasper Johns Untitled 2018 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from Matinées
Lives of the Great Composers make it sound
Too much like cooking: "Sore beset,
He put his heart's blood into that quintet . . ."
So let us try the figure turned around
As in some Lives of Obscure Listeners:
"The strains of Cimarosa and Mozart
Flowed through his veins, and fed his solitary heart.
Long beyond adolescence [One infers
Your elimination, sweet Champagne
Drunk between acts!] the aria's remote
Control surviving his worst interval,
Tissue of sound and tissue of the brain
Would coalesce, and what the Masters wrote
Itself compose his features sharp and small."
Hilariously Dr. Scherer took the guise
Of a bland smoothshaven Alberich whose age-old
Plan had been to fill my tooth with gold.
Another whiff of laughing gas,
And the understanding was implicit
That we must guard each other, this gold and I,
Against amalgamation by
The elemental pit.
Vague as to what dentist and tooth "stood for,"
One patient dreamer gathered something more.
A voice said in the speech of birds,
"My father having tampered with your mouth,
From now on, metal, music, myth
Will seem to taint its words."
– James Merrill (1969)