Jacqueline Kennedy
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in an open-air motorcade in Texas on November 22, 1963, the nation was transfixed by the frenzied media coverage—including the Pop artist Andy Warhol. Warhol, who began his series of celebrity portraits just a year prior, scoured newspapers and magazines for images relating to the tragedy. In the end, he found himself most inspired by eight photographs of the former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy: two photographs before the assassination that showed Jackie smiling in her iconic pink Chanel suit and pillbox hat, two that captured her grief-stricken face during the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson, and four more from her husband’s funeral. Over the following year, Warhol transformed these images into over 300 silkscreen paintings, often choosing palettes of blue and black to reflect the colors of the television.
Series by this artist
- Campbell’s Soup Cans146 available
- Marilyn Monroe136 available
- Advertisements77 available
- Mick Jagger69 available
- Shoes66 available
- Celebrity Portraits64 available
- Mao62 available
- Ladies and Gentlemen61 available
- Polaroids58 available
- Cowboys and Indians54 available
- Myths53 available
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- Reigning Queens44 available
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- Illustrations34 available
- Electric Chairs32 available
- Dollar Sign32 available
- Athletes25 available
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- Tomato Soup24 available
- Details of Renaissance Paintings23 available
- Bananas23 available
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- Martha Graham18 available
- Dancers17 available
- Lenin17 available
- Muhammad Ali17 available
- Committee 200016 available
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- Halston15 available
- Poinsettias13 available
- Angels13 available
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- Letter to the World (The Kick)12 available
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- Dollar Bills12 available
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