Three Flags

Three Flags is a encaustic painting made by Jasper Johns in 1958, containing three different canvases which are all colored with hot wax. Due to how it was made, each canvas gets 25% smaller than the last one, creating a three-dimensional piece of work. It is featured in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in the National Gallery of Art.
== Role ==
=== Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ===
In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the Three Flags painting is in the background, being seen in the scene where Larry and Amelia Earhart are walking away from the V-J Day in Times Square painting, which they had turned around to escape from Kahmunrah's guards.
Like a handful of other paintings and art pieces in the National Gallery of Art, Three Flags is merely in the background, not really having a role in the general plot of the movie.
== Trivia ==
* Due to the time when this painting was made, the United States flag shown only has 48 stars, unlike today where the newest version of the United States flag has 50 stars.