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/AVvXsEjGjDJfV4N5KcBOzNt4J2NDfTDkv6lzVBL3TTkZhC45W8VtKdZ_aq5yinXyPYFU7RKUIQKSWo6G2QSQv2T5PoycalgtoPvzj58dmSLK_AjzRJYQtZ47b1anHyC8WgvCsb51pJtdm65f3YE/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/AVvXsEjGjDJfV4N5KcBOzNt4J2NDfTDkv6lzVBL3TTkZhC45W8VtKdZ_aq5yinXyPYFU7RKUIQKSWo6G2QSQv2T5PoycalgtoPvzj58dmSLK_AjzRJYQtZ47b1anHyC8WgvCsb51pJtdm65f3YE/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/AVvXsEhnyfrDSmmHhoDzJJ2asPiyHVmI_FmrZriPa6n9qDg7UBAWQrUFS5ezbY5QssEw_hePyReYpHVchOyMb-ZSfCCATCrOmFIxM_xQEnVXnWss5oxSNpJiUyV7ogihggivo_OsiuJZT-euwwk/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/AVvXsEhnyfrDSmmHhoDzJJ2asPiyHVmI_FmrZriPa6n9qDg7UBAWQrUFS5ezbY5QssEw_hePyReYpHVchOyMb-ZSfCCATCrOmFIxM_xQEnVXnWss5oxSNpJiUyV7ogihggivo_OsiuJZT-euwwk/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/AVvXsEj936GJeFlKHnKRou8Yn-oG22RhQhTEFJ37E6qW3hQhfKtO4mWmemLj1EHMxIs42INg_8WUgSmFTCnwiLc-aAlVuO-dx7n2aJ8OrwqBSUS19Z3-3Myf6kMpurqPJRdCLq6PRvT7up6WuW0/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/AVvXsEj936GJeFlKHnKRou8Yn-oG22RhQhTEFJ37E6qW3hQhfKtO4mWmemLj1EHMxIs42INg_8WUgSmFTCnwiLc-aAlVuO-dx7n2aJ8OrwqBSUS19Z3-3Myf6kMpurqPJRdCLq6PRvT7up6WuW0/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/AVvXsEi6U6l3HXlWwhGJQZSS_ICvYiRNe-uWqUXXixtERD645yNkioyQXAvN1-gNBePKEMJY3y5amRDzRx6A6DfdAWVwi8EJYFocpsdm6GjiymeFOL6wcNJUUri94bZ2oWXCoEqedJ-1PD6sdvs/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/AVvXsEi6U6l3HXlWwhGJQZSS_ICvYiRNe-uWqUXXixtERD645yNkioyQXAvN1-gNBePKEMJY3y5amRDzRx6A6DfdAWVwi8EJYFocpsdm6GjiymeFOL6wcNJUUri94bZ2oWXCoEqedJ-1PD6sdvs/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/AVvXsEh1Ezg7ib7hq4eBrVtiQZINrQGi9o9cLbgBf-IZtVw6wSnMVcDeAiSQH9_TNTtozxvn64MQOSntB4ol3azucMkxW3O0AfBaTulL0wrRFBweZzYdZSGk2w5RAsmbOD8Ub_4pW6pd8B2Pu1E/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/AVvXsEh1Ezg7ib7hq4eBrVtiQZINrQGi9o9cLbgBf-IZtVw6wSnMVcDeAiSQH9_TNTtozxvn64MQOSntB4ol3azucMkxW3O0AfBaTulL0wrRFBweZzYdZSGk2w5RAsmbOD8Ub_4pW6pd8B2Pu1E/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/AVvXsEho7rPaHgtUohzO5EvORNZ8rLTCyHb_zozJvpnksrUP7ZBk8eBbiRnu5X_t0MoZ96rXfAgciXKCatuJfIS5s_blvylopCRQwyB9VgmxJGkLv6BAuyv3LBjHSQ20XEPU5teNKJuDyGniaLM/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/AVvXsEho7rPaHgtUohzO5EvORNZ8rLTCyHb_zozJvpnksrUP7ZBk8eBbiRnu5X_t0MoZ96rXfAgciXKCatuJfIS5s_blvylopCRQwyB9VgmxJGkLv6BAuyv3LBjHSQ20XEPU5teNKJuDyGniaLM/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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