Janet Swahn

USA Bright New Hope

Original Mixed Media Painting on Canvas

Canvas Size 32″ high x 48″ wide – Offered Stretched

Over two hundred years ago, the Second Continental Congress officially made the Stars and Stripes the symbol of America, going so far as to declare that the 13 stars gracing the original flag represented “a new constellation” with the ideal that America embodied a bright new hope and light for mankind.

The American flag was designed to represent the new union of the thirteen original states: it would have thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and thirteen stars, white on a blue field. One of the first flags had the stars arranged in a circle, based on the idea that all colonies were equal.

Patriotic & Dawgs Original Art by Janet Swahn – Show Your Colors!