Print Your Own Jackie!
- Publisher
- Mike Bidlo, American, born 1953
- Date
- 1984
- Material
- Screenprint
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 19 5/8 in. × 16 in. (49.8 × 40.6 cm)
sheet: 22 3/8 × 17 3/8 in. (56.8 × 44.1 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
- Rights
- © Mike Bidlo
- Object Number
- 459:2020
NOTES
In November 1963, press photographs of Jacqueline Kennedy at the funeral of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, became an emotional touch point for a grieving country. Andy Warhol manipulated several of those images and used them to produce hundreds of paintings and prints featuring Jackie’s face. Mike Bidlo seems to have relished the cascading layers of appropriation: Bidlo from Warhol; Warhol from the press; the press from the First Lady’s intensely private moment.
By writing “Print Your Own Jackie!” at the bottom of this print, Bidlo suggests anyone can create their own copy.
By writing “Print Your Own Jackie!” at the bottom of this print, Bidlo suggests anyone can create their own copy.
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