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Victoria and Albert Museum
Three Flags

Three Flags, Jasper Johns, 1959

Jasper Johns, portrait

Jasper JohnsAmerican, 1930

Three Flags

1959 · Drawing · 35.5 × 58.5 cm

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

About the work

Early in his career Johns chose the flag as his primary motif. He continued to use the image of a flag, representing it in in a range of different media because, as a familiar object and a symbol, it was a kind of abstract picture in itself, and a means to explore pictorial illusion. Here, using only tonal modulation, he mimics the effects of colour, and thus of painting.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Particulars

1959 · aged 29

1930now

Accession number: Circ.135-1966

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In the catalog

Sources

Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Three Flags — Jasper Johns · ART WIKI