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Three Flags is a 1958 painting by American artist Jasper Johns.Done in encaustic (wax and pigment) on canvas the work consists of three concentric American flags depicted in their usual red white and blue colors with 48 white stars in a blue canton on a field of thirteen alternating red and white stripes. A total of 84 white stars are visible from the three layers reversing the usual 48 stars representing the then U.S. states (preceding Alaska and Hawaii) of the U.S.