Stars, stripes and dollars
AS THE AMERICAN ELECTION played itself out, the British Museum kept its eye on the Stars and Stripes too. In its case it was not the Biden-Trump endgame but a picture by the venerable American painter Jasper Johns.
, (above, right) from 1973, is one of the most technically challenging of all his prints and had just been given to the museum by the New York-based collectors Johanna and Leslie Garfield. The print is part of an edition of 65 and shows both sides of the American flag — one side glossy, the other matt. In
