LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: flag

Jasper Johns Flag 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954) “One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it,” Johns once said. Look closely and you can see the scraps of newspaper he painted over with a mixture of hot wax and color, a technique called encaustic. You might also notice that there are only forty-eight stars instead of fifty. When Johns made this work of art, Hawaii and Alaska were not yet part of the United States. How else is Flag different from other flags you’ve seen? How is it similar? Kids label from 2022 Additional text “It all began...with my painting a picture of an American flag,” Johns remarked in 1959 in reference to this work. Flag was made on a cut bedsheet using oil paint and then encaustic, a method involving pigmented melted wax. Johns dipped strips of cloth and newsprint into the hot wax and then affixed them to the sheet to fill in a penciled outline of the flag. The result is a picture whose process is registered on its surface, a focus on materiality at odds with the expressionistic gestures dominant in painting at the time of Flag’s making. Johns went on to use encaustic to render familiar forms—flags, targets, numbers, letters, and a map of the United States—time and again throughout his career. Flag constitutes both a thing (a flag) and its representation (a painting of a flag). This built-in ambiguity is the work’s innovation as well as its provocation. MoMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., hoped to acquire the piece along with three others from Johns’s first solo exhibition, in 1958 at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery. However, the Museum’s Committee and Board of Trustees deemed Flag to be potentially “unpatriotic.” Barr circumvented their objections by asking architect Philip Johnson to acquire the work and donate it to the Museum at a later date. Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019) The forty-eight stars and red-and-white stripes depicted here picture an American flag from the year this work was made. Johns noted that using a recognizable image took care of a great deal for him because he didn’t have to design it. He made this work by combining panels, paint, and encaustic—a mixture of pigment and melted wax that captured the paint’s drips, smears, and brushstrokes. Beneath the flag’s familiar stripes, we can make out a collage of newspaper scraps whose dates locate this commonplace symbol within a particular moment. Gallery label from "Collection 1940s—1970s," 2019 Medium: Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 60 5/8" (107.3 x 153.8 cm) Credit: Gift of Philip Johnson in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Object number: 106.1973 Department: Painting and Sculpture Text from: www.moma.org/collection/works/78805

Jasper Johns Flag 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954) “One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it,” Johns once said. Look closely and you can see the scraps of newspaper he painted over with a mixture of hot wax and color, a technique called encaustic. You might also notice that there are only forty-eight stars instead of fifty. When Johns made this work of art, Hawaii and Alaska were not yet part of the United States. How else is Flag different from other flags you’ve seen? How is it similar? Kids label from 2022 Additional text “It all began...with my painting a picture of an American flag,” Johns remarked in 1959 in reference to this work. Flag was made on a cut bedsheet using oil paint and then encaustic, a method involving pigmented melted wax. Johns dipped strips of cloth and newsprint into the hot wax and then affixed them to the sheet to fill in a penciled outline of the flag. The result is a picture whose process is registered on its surface, a focus on materiality at odds with the expressionistic gestures dominant in painting at the time of Flag’s making. Johns went on to use encaustic to render familiar forms—flags, targets, numbers, letters, and a map of the United States—time and again throughout his career. Flag constitutes both a thing (a flag) and its representation (a painting of a flag). This built-in ambiguity is the work’s innovation as well as its provocation. MoMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., hoped to acquire the piece along with three others from Johns’s first solo exhibition, in 1958 at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery. However, the Museum’s Committee and Board of Trustees deemed Flag to be potentially “unpatriotic.” Barr circumvented their objections by asking architect Philip Johnson to acquire the work and donate it to the Museum at a later date. Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019) The forty-eight stars and red-and-white stripes depicted here picture an American flag from the year this work was made. Johns noted that using a recognizable image took care of a great deal for him because he didn’t have to design it. He made this work by combining panels, paint, and encaustic—a mixture of pigment and melted wax that captured the paint’s drips, smears, and brushstrokes. Beneath the flag’s familiar stripes, we can make out a collage of newspaper scraps whose dates locate this commonplace symbol within a particular moment. Gallery label from "Collection 1940s—1970s," 2019 Medium: Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 60 5/8" (107.3 x 153.8 cm) Credit: Gift of Philip Johnson in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Object number: 106.1973 Department: Painting and Sculpture Text from: www.moma.org/collection/works/78805

The Betsy Ross House is a landmark in Philadelphia purported to be the site where the seamstress and flag-maker Betsy Ross (1752-1836) lived when she sewed the first American Flag. The origins of the Betsy Ross myth trace back to her relatives, particularly her grandsons, William and George Canby, and the celebrations of the Centennial of 1876. Evidence for the precise location of Ross' home came from verification provided by several surviving family members, although the best archival evidence indicates the house would have been adjacent to the one that still stands today as The Betsy Ross House. Although the house is one of the most visited tourist sites in Philadelphia, the claim that Ross once lived there, and that she designed and sewed the first American flag, sometimes called the Betsy Ross flag, are considered false by most historians. The house sits on Arch Street, several blocks from Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The front part of the building was built around 1740, in the Pennsylvania colonial style, with the stair hall and the rear section added 10 to 20 years later. Had she lived here, Ross would have resided in the house from 1776, the death of her first husband, John Ross, until about 1779. Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross_House

Artist: Unknown Artist, Japanese School Descriptive Title: [Japanese Women Cloaked in American and Japanese Flags] Date: ca. 1900 Medium: Gelatin silver print Dimensions: Image: 27.7 x 11.1 cm (10 7/8 x 4 3/8 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennen Ford, 2006 Accession Number: 2006.525.2 Classification: Photograph Additional Details: Applied color Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/photog... and In April 1853, a fleet of US Navy ships led by Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay (now Tokyo) and insisted that the emperor abandon his isolationist ways and open his country’s harbors to foreign trade. Although the first camera appeared in Japan as early as 1848, the opening of its harbors five years later brought foreign photographers interested in a new market, and locals soon began to open their own businesses to cater to the growing tourist trade. By the end of the century, photography in Japan was a hugely popular commercial enterprise with a fierce trade in both imagery and photographic equipment. This portrait of two Japanese women illustrates the eagerness of the Japanese to maintain a diplomatic relationship with the United States, an influential superpower, during this period. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) Title: Garden at Sainte-Adresse Date: 1867 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 38 5/8 x 51 1/8 in. (98.1 x 129.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Purchase, special contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1967 Accession Number: 67.241 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe... and Claude Monet French, 1840-1926 Garden at Saint-Adresse, 1867 Oil on canvas Signed (lower right): Claude Monet Accession Number: 67.241 Monet painted this canvas in the summer of 1867 in a Sainte-Adresse garden with a view of Honfleur at the horizon. The models were probably Monet’s father Adolphe, in the foreground; Monet’s cousin Jeanne Marguerite Lecadre at the garden fence; Dr. Adolphe Lecadre, her father; and perhaps Lecadre’s other daughter, Sophie, the woman seated in the foreground with her back to the viewer. Although this scene projects affluent domesticity, it is by no means a family portrait. Monet’s relations with his father were tense that summer, owing to family disapproval of the young artist’s liaison with his companion, Camielle Doncieux. Monet called this work “the Chinese painting in which there are flags;” Renoir referred to it as “the Japanese painting with little flags.” In the 1860s, the composition’s flat horizontal bands of color would have reminded sophisticated viewers of Japanese color wood-block prints, which were avidly collected by Monet, Manet, Renoir, Whistler, and others in their circle. The print by the Japanese artist Hokusai that may have inspired this picture remains today at Monet’s house at Giverny. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

The 5-story, limestone-clad Carlyle Galleries Building at 980 Madison Avenue across Madison Avenue from the Carlyle Hotel, [has been] the most prominent landmark on the Upper East Side west of Third Avenue since it was erected in 1930. The Carlyle Galleries building was originally erected as a four-story building to house the Parke-Bernet auction house in 1950 by Robert Dowling as a "light-protector" for the Carlyle Hotel, which Mr. Dowling then owned. In 1987, 980 Madison was altered with the addition of many windows along its Madison Avenue frontage between 76th and 77th Streets and a fifth floor. The building lies within the Upper East Side Historic District and the Madison Avenue Preservation Special District, which limits the height of new buildings to 210 feet. The building is notable for a large sculpture over the entrance by Wheeler Williams. Text from: www.thecityreview.com/mad980pp.html and www.cityrealty.com/new_developments/news.cr?noteid=9661

The 5-story, limestone-clad Carlyle Galleries Building at 980 Madison Avenue across Madison Avenue from the Carlyle Hotel, [has been] the most prominent landmark on the Upper East Side west of Third Avenue since it was erected in 1930. The Carlyle Galleries building was originally erected as a four-story building to house the Parke-Bernet auction house in 1950 by Robert Dowling as a "light-protector" for the Carlyle Hotel, which Mr. Dowling then owned. In 1987, 980 Madison was altered with the addition of many windows along its Madison Avenue frontage between 76th and 77th Streets and a fifth floor. The building lies within the Upper East Side Historic District and the Madison Avenue Preservation Special District, which limits the height of new buildings to 210 feet. The building is notable for a large sculpture over the entrance by Wheeler Williams. Text from: www.thecityreview.com/mad980pp.html and www.cityrealty.com/new_developments/news.cr?noteid=9661

The origin of the NYSE can be traced to May 17, 1792 when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by twenty-four stock brokers outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree. On March 8, 1817 the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". This name was shortened to its current form in 1863. Anthony Stockholm was elected the Exchange's first president. The Exchange was closed shortly after the beginning of World War I (July 1914), but it was re-opened on November 28 of that year in order to help the war effort by trading bonds. On September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded outside the NYSE building on Wall Street in a terrorist attack, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found. The NYSE building and some buildings nearby, such as the JP Morgan building, still have marks on their facades caused by the bombing. The Black Thursday crash of the Exchange on October 24, 1929 and the sell-off panic which started on Black Tuesday, October 29, are often blamed for precipitating the Great Depression. In an effort to try to restore investor confidence, the Exchange unveiled a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public on October 31, 1938. On October 1, 1934, the exchange was registered as a national securities exchange with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with a president and a thirty-three member board. On February 18, 1971 the not-for-profit corporation was formed, and the number of board members was reduced to twenty-five. On August 24, 1967; Abbie Hoffman led a group opposed to capitalism (and other things, including the Vietnam War) in the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange. The protestors threw fistfuls of (mostly fake) dollar bills down to the traders below, who began to scramble frantically to grab the money, as fast as they could. Hoffman claimed to be pointing out that, metaphorically, that's what NYSE traders "were already doing". The NYSE then installed barriers in the gallery, to prevent this kind of protest from interfering with trading again. On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, one of the largest one-day declines in recorded stock market history. It has been dubbed "Black Monday." Following a 554.26 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on October 27, 1997, officials at the Exchange for the first time invoked the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading. This was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading now halts for an hour, two hours, or the rest of the day when the DJIA drops 10, 20, or 30 percent, respectively. In the afternoon, the 10 and 20% drops will halt trading for a shorter period of time, but a 30% drop will always close the exchange for the day. The rationale behind the trading halt was to give investors a chance to cool off and reevaluate their positions (see the October 27, 1997 mini-crash). The first central location of the NYSE was a room rented for $200 a month at 40 Wall Street in 1817. The NYSE was closed from September 11 until September 17, 2001 as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Text from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange

The origin of the NYSE can be traced to May 17, 1792 when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by twenty-four stock brokers outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree. On March 8, 1817 the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". This name was shortened to its current form in 1863. Anthony Stockholm was elected the Exchange's first president. The Exchange was closed shortly after the beginning of World War I (July 1914), but it was re-opened on November 28 of that year in order to help the war effort by trading bonds. On September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded outside the NYSE building on Wall Street in a terrorist attack, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found. The NYSE building and some buildings nearby, such as the JP Morgan building, still have marks on their facades caused by the bombing. The Black Thursday crash of the Exchange on October 24, 1929 and the sell-off panic which started on Black Tuesday, October 29, are often blamed for precipitating the Great Depression. In an effort to try to restore investor confidence, the Exchange unveiled a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public on October 31, 1938. On October 1, 1934, the exchange was registered as a national securities exchange with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with a president and a thirty-three member board. On February 18, 1971 the not-for-profit corporation was formed, and the number of board members was reduced to twenty-five. On August 24, 1967; Abbie Hoffman led a group opposed to capitalism (and other things, including the Vietnam War) in the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange. The protestors threw fistfuls of (mostly fake) dollar bills down to the traders below, who began to scramble frantically to grab the money, as fast as they could. Hoffman claimed to be pointing out that, metaphorically, that's what NYSE traders "were already doing". The NYSE then installed barriers in the gallery, to prevent this kind of protest from interfering with trading again. On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, one of the largest one-day declines in recorded stock market history. It has been dubbed "Black Monday." Following a 554.26 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on October 27, 1997, officials at the Exchange for the first time invoked the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading. This was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading now halts for an hour, two hours, or the rest of the day when the DJIA drops 10, 20, or 30 percent, respectively. In the afternoon, the 10 and 20% drops will halt trading for a shorter period of time, but a 30% drop will always close the exchange for the day. The rationale behind the trading halt was to give investors a chance to cool off and reevaluate their positions (see the October 27, 1997 mini-crash). The first central location of the NYSE was a room rented for $200 a month at 40 Wall Street in 1817. The NYSE was closed from September 11 until September 17, 2001 as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Text from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange

The origin of the NYSE can be traced to May 17, 1792 when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by twenty-four stock brokers outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree. On March 8, 1817 the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". This name was shortened to its current form in 1863. Anthony Stockholm was elected the Exchange's first president. The Exchange was closed shortly after the beginning of World War I (July 1914), but it was re-opened on November 28 of that year in order to help the war effort by trading bonds. On September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded outside the NYSE building on Wall Street in a terrorist attack, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found. The NYSE building and some buildings nearby, such as the JP Morgan building, still have marks on their facades caused by the bombing. The Black Thursday crash of the Exchange on October 24, 1929 and the sell-off panic which started on Black Tuesday, October 29, are often blamed for precipitating the Great Depression. In an effort to try to restore investor confidence, the Exchange unveiled a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public on October 31, 1938. On October 1, 1934, the exchange was registered as a national securities exchange with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with a president and a thirty-three member board. On February 18, 1971 the not-for-profit corporation was formed, and the number of board members was reduced to twenty-five. On August 24, 1967; Abbie Hoffman led a group opposed to capitalism (and other things, including the Vietnam War) in the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange. The protestors threw fistfuls of (mostly fake) dollar bills down to the traders below, who began to scramble frantically to grab the money, as fast as they could. Hoffman claimed to be pointing out that, metaphorically, that's what NYSE traders "were already doing". The NYSE then installed barriers in the gallery, to prevent this kind of protest from interfering with trading again. On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, one of the largest one-day declines in recorded stock market history. It has been dubbed "Black Monday." Following a 554.26 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on October 27, 1997, officials at the Exchange for the first time invoked the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading. This was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading now halts for an hour, two hours, or the rest of the day when the DJIA drops 10, 20, or 30 percent, respectively. In the afternoon, the 10 and 20% drops will halt trading for a shorter period of time, but a 30% drop will always close the exchange for the day. The rationale behind the trading halt was to give investors a chance to cool off and reevaluate their positions (see the October 27, 1997 mini-crash). The first central location of the NYSE was a room rented for $200 a month at 40 Wall Street in 1817. The NYSE was closed from September 11 until September 17, 2001 as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Text from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange

Workers Memorial Atlantic City A monument to the workers who died helping to rebuild Atlantic City. Five-foot granite marker contains the names of the people killed on jobs involving the redevelopment of Atlantic City since 1977.

The crowd near Fortunata Brothers Pastry Shop, celebrating Italy's win of the World Cup, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

The crowd near Fortunata Brothers Pastry Shop, celebrating Italy's win of the World Cup, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

The crowd near Fortunata Brothers Pastry Shop, celebrating Italy's win of the World Cup, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

Little Big Town - Toy Shop Via Cesare Battisti, 120 (Piazza Venezia) 00187 - Roma - Italia