'Three Flags' and other rare Jasper Johns works unveiled at the Broad
LOS ANGELES - One night in 1954, Jasper Johns had a dream: He was painting the image of an American flag. He rose the next morning, stretched his bed sheets into a makeshift canvas and began re-creating the picture lingering in his head.
More flags followed, now among his most iconic motifs.
The morning after President Trump's State of the Union address, one of Johns' most significant flag paintings - stacked canvases known as "Three Flags" - went up on a gallery wall at the Broad museum. The work, on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., almost never travels. It has been on loan only four times since the museum acquired it in 1980. It's one of Johns' earliest flag paintings
