Jackie (Four Jackies) (Portraits of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy)

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Jackie (Four Jackies) (Portraits of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy)

1964

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)

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.

Object Details

Title:

Jackie (Four Jackies) (Portraits of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy)

Date:

1964

Artist:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)

Medium:

Screenprinted acrylic on four canvas panels

Dimensions:

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)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, 1966

Accession Number:

1966-57-1--4

Geography:

Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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