Judy Garland

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

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")

Alternate Title

What becomes a legend most?

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Judy Garland: Female

Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater

Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer

Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie

Judy Garland: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television

Judy Garland: Oscar

Portrait

Record ID

npg_NPG.2005.140

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

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GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm458da5d6a-8108-4763-9cdd-572b55499245