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Jackie (Four Jackies) (Portraits of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy)
Andy Warhol, American, 1928 - 1987
Geography:
Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1964Medium:
Screenprinted acrylic on four canvas panelsDimensions:
Each (panel): 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm) All Four Framed Together: 44 5/8 × 36 1/2 × 1 7/8 inches (113.3 × 92.7 × 4.8 cm)Copyright:
© Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Curatorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
1966-57-1--4Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, 1966
Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1964Medium:
Screenprinted acrylic on four canvas panelsDimensions:
Each (panel): 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm) All Four Framed Together: 44 5/8 × 36 1/2 × 1 7/8 inches (113.3 × 92.7 × 4.8 cm)Copyright:
© Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Curatorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1966-57-1--4Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, 1966
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1960s [x] acrylic [x] american [x] appropriation [x] assassination [x] collage [x] contemporary [x] dallas [x] death [x] desensitization [x] first lady [x] four jackies [x] historical [x] iconic [x] jackie kennedy [x] john f kennedy [x] life magazine [x] mass media coverage [x] military [x] mourning [x] nationalism [x] newspaper [x] pillbox hat [x] polyptych [x] pop art [x] pop culture [x] portrait [x] repetition [x] screen print [x] silk-screen [x] tragedy [x] trauma [x] warhol [x] widow [x]After the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Andy Warhol chose photographs used in media accounts before and after the event and cropped them to focus on the president's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. The artist often employed this unorthodox approach to portraiture, appropriating photographs of celebrities from magazines and newspapers to reinforce an individual's public image rather than creating his own artistic interpretation of a sitter's inner character. Here, the combination of four pictures brilliantly condenses and intensifies the numbing effects of the mass media coverage that shaped the nation's experience of this shared tragedy.