Color offset lithograph on wove paper, 1969. 435x652 mm; 17¼x25¾ inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 130/300 in pencil, lower right. Published by the Committee Against the War in Vietnam. A very good printing.
Johns (born 1930) created this image to commemorate the anti-war Moratorium Marches that occurred throughout the United States in the fall of 1969. Johns subverted the image of the American flag, combining an Agent Orange-esque hue and a sickly shade of green along with a bullet hole in order to draw attention to the violence and horror the United States had wrought upon Vietnam since the start of the war more than a decade earlier. ULAE S5.
