Three overlapping American flags with stars and stripes, arranged in a layered pattern.

Paintings On view

Three Flags

1958

Medium
Encaustic on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 30 5/8 × 45 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (77.8 × 115.6 × 11.7 cm)
Accession number
80.32
Acquired
1980
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Gilman Foundation, Inc., The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman, Laura-Lee Whittier Woods, Howard Lipman, and Ed Downe in honor of the Museum's 50th Anniversary
Reproduction credit
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958. Encaustic on canvas, overall: 30 5/8 × 45 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (77.8 × 115.6 × 11.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Gilman Foundation, Inc., The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman, Laura-Lee Whittier Woods, Howard Lipman, and Ed Downe in honor of the Museum's 50th Anniversary 80.32. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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