Beach flag

“Flag 09” (white sand and red dirt) by Tim Sauter, at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., in his show “American Flags’,’’ Aug. 13-Sept. 25. He lives in the Lanesville section of Gloucester.

The museum says: “‘Americans Flags was created by artist, designer and professor in the practice of design at Olin College of Engineering {in Needham, Mass.} Tim Ferguson Sauder. The exhibit explores our American identity through the creation of flags built using marks collected from the different people and places that make up our country.’’