Stars and Stripes

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Olympics have inspired me to compile some images of the American flag.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhep8-mrhiIXLGzBt5ty0C5ZiUc62pv2YJDweZZysUsdBBmnMfg_zc7Ik3qkMZSm7zFAV4we7qqgdejP4BQD-IR7bi3RyqEF9jjwvIUOtJSdbkUJ99hEsl_D1GlT5lq3c6GjtYztvpapn4/s1600/Three_FlagsbyJasperJohns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhep8-mrhiIXLGzBt5ty0C5ZiUc62pv2YJDweZZysUsdBBmnMfg_zc7Ik3qkMZSm7zFAV4we7qqgdejP4BQD-IR7bi3RyqEF9jjwvIUOtJSdbkUJ99hEsl_D1GlT5lq3c6GjtYztvpapn4/s400/Three_FlagsbyJasperJohns.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Three Flags" by Jasper Johns (1958).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Whitney Museum of Art.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpwS2ZQ9e8eiTa51IXY9f3wJrPFaQh8y043V0X5HF43zttFtbajvIUT4Y6iCH3_hEGr0FcUbj6eXK_I4_RmIvsnY4ueUYNpoB6pnWUeQRqIvIhjWNUJEjfyAkYuwlDxltN0i279yUuHo/s1600/2406_7_slide%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpwS2ZQ9e8eiTa51IXY9f3wJrPFaQh8y043V0X5HF43zttFtbajvIUT4Y6iCH3_hEGr0FcUbj6eXK_I4_RmIvsnY4ueUYNpoB6pnWUeQRqIvIhjWNUJEjfyAkYuwlDxltN0i279yUuHo/s400/2406_7_slide%255B1%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Flag" by Jasper Johns (1960).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Encaustic and printed paper collage on paper laid down on canvas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Once owned by author Michael Crichton, who died in 2008.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sold by <a href="http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5313636" target="_blank">Christie's</a> for $28.6 million in 2010.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Christie's auction catalog called the piece, which sold within two minutes, "one of the greatest icons of modern art alongside Picasso's 'Guernica' and Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn'."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFBJaevNQtZ2e47ikiaaUTcxjMSk4nKgFEsfqTUUGot_zMnvlwojCQNDv6yu2m67fkk5rBMfmOmPIzKwlPv8_O1cHGwGWFy6xpCc8tGCuqNlOnSnhboGGEzjvkyyKy4xxXrUcLwq5XWU/s1600/6522273_1_l%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFBJaevNQtZ2e47ikiaaUTcxjMSk4nKgFEsfqTUUGot_zMnvlwojCQNDv6yu2m67fkk5rBMfmOmPIzKwlPv8_O1cHGwGWFy6xpCc8tGCuqNlOnSnhboGGEzjvkyyKy4xxXrUcLwq5XWU/s400/6522273_1_l%255B1%255D.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"La Nouvelle Chute de L'Amerique" by Roy Lichtenstein (1992).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Etching aquatint.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYZQPVrGnVgf6zFyUHeSEpY6pADVZ3gryCMK6NzMxP-1EFvV1Vpu1d10JIrZ92ENWj9BsI1zX8YrjHscIAXWgrcMzLMrEeUT9lDZN-ro64LOQURj0qPbofPQ3mLksQd866Dp9LS0lNvaI/s1600/KeithHaringAmericanFlag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYZQPVrGnVgf6zFyUHeSEpY6pADVZ3gryCMK6NzMxP-1EFvV1Vpu1d10JIrZ92ENWj9BsI1zX8YrjHscIAXWgrcMzLMrEeUT9lDZN-ro64LOQURj0qPbofPQ3mLksQd866Dp9LS0lNvaI/s640/KeithHaringAmericanFlag.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keith Haring.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1cRTkI3zgnymIukxSuEVkDKn-1LSMZ0whurxHfgwRfEWdl2_H1g14CWizVgGWlpHWEVb_75ZaKQyCk_OUTZPWa6_92RTQQY3SNF-RO1DGCcgBV-gGd4B4LtlhsQXv7qLVDC4gJBR6kg/s1600/d4002362x%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1cRTkI3zgnymIukxSuEVkDKn-1LSMZ0whurxHfgwRfEWdl2_H1g14CWizVgGWlpHWEVb_75ZaKQyCk_OUTZPWa6_92RTQQY3SNF-RO1DGCcgBV-gGd4B4LtlhsQXv7qLVDC4gJBR6kg/s640/d4002362x%255B1%255D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"American Flag" by Andy Warhol (Executed in 1976-1986).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Four stitched gelatin silver prints.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sold by <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/andy-warhol-american-flag-4002362-details.aspx?intObjectID=4002362?intObjectID=4002362" target="_blank">Christie's</a> for $41,825 in 2002.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Blh06kylrCt91r0hQyRIwL4hQKON02z_izcDi7wyeq-WMx1NNrIZMgHpBm9FQbivk9sofFeOHat4czdwy0-TylMxsTxnoCy58HKS527BmRXcG0Txp4lU509SdVUGZmTY9W8_gKIl_Tk/s1600/d3893229x%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Blh06kylrCt91r0hQyRIwL4hQKON02z_izcDi7wyeq-WMx1NNrIZMgHpBm9FQbivk9sofFeOHat4czdwy0-TylMxsTxnoCy58HKS527BmRXcG0Txp4lU509SdVUGZmTY9W8_gKIl_Tk/s640/d3893229x%255B1%255D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"American Flag" by Robert Mapplethorpe (1987/1989).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gelatin silver print.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sold by <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/robert-mapplethorpe-american-flag-3893229-details.aspx?intObjectID=3893229" target="_blank">Christie's</a> for $8,963 in 2002.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Stars and Stripes

The Olympics have inspired me to compile some images of the American flag. "Three Flags" by Jasper Johns (1958). Whitney Museum of...

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