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Artist:
Andy Warhol, 6 Aug 1928 - 22 Feb 1987  Search this
Sitter:
Judy Garland, 10 Jun 1922 - 22 Jun 1969  Search this
Medium:
Color screenprint on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 96.4 × 96.4 cm (37 15/16 × 37 15/16")
Frame: 118.1 × 117.8 × 4.8 cm (46 1/2 × 46 3/8 × 1 7/8")
Type:
Print
Date:
1985
Exhibition Label:
Singer and actress Judy Garland (1922–1969) achieved fame and success early on. At age thirteen, she quickly gained popularity among studio executives through her films with costar Mickey Rooney. Garland received a special Oscar in 1940 for outstanding performances as a juvenile screen actor, including her role as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz (1939). She continued singing and acting into adulthood, but struggled with her celebrity and addiction to diet and sleeping pills.
In this print, Andy Warhol intensified the actress’s glamour and drew attention to the artifice behind it by enlarging and cropping his source image and adding color accents. He once described Garland as “turning everything on and off in a second; she was the greatest actress you could imagine in every minute of her life.”
Topic:
Judy Garland: Female  Search this
Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Stage actor  Search this
Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this
Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie actor  Search this
Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television actor  Search this
Judy Garland: Oscar  Search this
Portrait  Search this
Credit Line:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Object number:
NPG.2005.140
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
Copyright:
© Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York
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National Portrait Gallery Collection
Location:
Currently not on view
Data Source:
National Portrait Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm458da5d6a-8108-4763-9cdd-572b55499245
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npg_NPG.2005.140