Ode to Jasper Johns, Pair of Rusty c. 1950s Flat Top Ballantine Beer Cans carved reamer pour some scotch

pour some scotch

She appears to be unsigned

on the back of a poster advertising a musical comedy with Blossom in the title somewhere

but well loved he certainly should be at this point

but no losses to the wood

Ode to Jasper Johns, Pair of Rusty c. 1950s Flat Top Ballantine Beer Cans carved reamer pour some scotchSold: 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