Judy Garland
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Object Details
- Date
- 1985
- 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.”
- Topic
- Judy Garland: Female
- Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Stage actor
- Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer
- Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie actor
- Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television actor
- Judy Garland: Performing arts awards\Academy Award
- Portrait
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.2005.140
- Type
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York
- 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")
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2005.140