Object Details
Artist
Andy Warhol, 6 Aug 1928 - 22 Feb 1987
Sitter
Judy Garland, 10 Jun 1922 - 22 Jun 1969
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.”
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Date
1985
Object number
NPG.2005.140
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York
Type
Print
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")
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Location
Currently not on view
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Topic
Judy Garland: Female
Judy Garland: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Theater\Stage actor
Judy Garland: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Music\Musician\Singer
Judy Garland: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Film\Movie actor
Judy Garland: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Television\Television actor
Judy Garland: Performing arts awards\Academy Award
Portrait
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Record ID
npg_NPG.2005.140