16 Americans Resources
Jasper Johns
Johns work is often described as Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture. Still, many compilations on pop art include Jasper Johns as a pop artist because of his artistic us
Jay DeFeo
Jay DeFeo, one of the "16 Artists," was born in 1929 in Hanover, New Hampshire, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a bachelor�s degree in 1950 and a master�s in 1951, both in studio art, from the University of California, Berkeley.
Frank Stella
In 1959, Frank Stella gained early, immediate recognition with his series of coolly impersonal black striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.