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"One hopes for something resembling truth," Jasper Johns said in 2006, "some sense of life, even of grace, to flicker, at least, in the work." Reproduced from the new paperback edition of the Royal Academy's stellar recent traveling exhibition catalog, our featured image for Memorial Day is "Flag on an Orange Field II" (encaustic on canvas, 137.5 x 92.1 cm, Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland)—a painting that looks as fresh today as it did when it was completed in 1958. #jasperjohns #flag #americanflag #memorialday #jasperjohnsflag #flagonanorangefield @royalacademyarts @glenstonemuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx948R8pzBv/?igshid=za4dfzm082kj

"To be an artist, you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist." –Jasper Johns #🎩 #marchcaps #jasperjohnsflag (at New York, New York)