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Jackie
196423 7/8 x 23 1/4 in. (60.6 x 59.1 cm)
Andy Warhol
United States (Pittsburgh, PA, 1928 - 1987, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1965.7
Location: Not currently on view
Warhol often used an unorthodox approach to portraiture. He borrowed from media photographs of celebrities to construct an individual’s public image instead of using a brush to render an idiosyncratic artistic interpretation of a sitter’s appearance.
This work is part of Warhol’s “Jackie” series, which he began shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. As the basis for the paintings, he first selected eight photographs from the mass-media coverage of the event. He then cropped the pictures to focus on the President’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. Warhol used a commercial silkscreen technique to produce multiple versions of his work. As Warhol described,
I wanted something that gave more of an assembly line effect….With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy.
[Forman Gallery, Summer 2015]
This work is part of Warhol’s “Jackie” series, which he began shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. As the basis for the paintings, he first selected eight photographs from the mass-media coverage of the event. He then cropped the pictures to focus on the President’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. Warhol used a commercial silkscreen technique to produce multiple versions of his work. As Warhol described,
I wanted something that gave more of an assembly line effect….With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy.
[Forman Gallery, Summer 2015]
Provenance
Purchased from the Memorial Art Gallery Exhibition: "In Focus," December 28, 1964 - January 31, 1965
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- In Focus: A Look at Realism in Art 12/28/1964 - 1/31/1965
- Focus on Faces 1967
- Contemporary Prints 8/1/1974 - 8/30/1974
- 30 Portraits: prints from the permanent collection Memorial Art Gallery 11/19/1977 - 2/12/1978
- Modern Art in Rochester 7/18/1981 - 8/23/1981
- If Elected I will Serve Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 9/10/2004 - 11/21/2004
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: 30 Portraits. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 43, Issue Number: 4. Issue Date: November 1977.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Memorial Art Gallery. Handbook Supplement : acquisitions, 1962-68. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 1968.
- Article Scope: Catalogue Raisonné entry and reproduction. George Frei, ed. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. London, England: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 2002. Volume Number: 02A
- Article Author: Searl, Marjorie B.. Article Title: Andy Warhol: Jackie. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 278-281
- Article Author: Rafferty, Rebecca. Article Title: In with the New: New Acquisitions and Reimagined Spaces at MAG. Article Scope: Review. City Newspaper. Rochester, NY Issue Date: August 26, 2015.
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Andy Warhol's Jackie, written by Marjorie B. Searl.