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Jackie
Andy Warhol, 1928 - 1987
Warhol, Andy
United States
1928 - 1987
Male
23 7/8 x 23 1/4 in. (60.6 x 59.1 cm)
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Acrylic
Acrylic
1964
1964
1964
1900-2000, 20th century, politics in art, serigraphs, women
Print
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]
1965.7
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Memorial Art Gallery
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Jacqueline Kennedy III
Jacqueline Kennedy III
Andy Warhol, 1928 - 1987
Warhol, Andy
United States
1928 - 1987
Male
Warhol, Andy
United States
1928 - 1987
Male
Primary
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1966
1966
1966
1900-2000, 20th century, politics in art, serigraphs, women
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The images that Andy Warhol used of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy were based on photographs by Fred War in "Life" magazine, December 6, 1963.
[Gallery label text]
From the portfolio "Eleven Pop Artists, Volume III"
Pop Art print rotation, Post-1950 American art gallery, Jessica Marten, Assistant Curator, Oct. 3, 2011 - March 5, 2012:
President John F. Kennedy was the first “television president;” he and his wife and children were regulars on our TVs, as if they were our royal family. After the President’s assassination, Warhol treated images of Jacqueline Kennedy as a popular culture commodity much like his ubiquitous Campbell Soup can.
Warhol used a commercial silkscreen technique to produce his art. “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.”
lower left, Hand undeterminedverso
1976.132
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Memorial Art Gallery
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