Lana Turner

Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987)

Date1976-1986

MediumGelatin silver prints with thread

DimensionsImage and sheet (overall): 27 5/16 × 21 1/2 inches (69.37 × 54.61 cm)
Mount: 35 1/2 × 29 inches (90.17 × 73.66 cm)
Framed: 36 3/4 × 30 1/4 × 2 inches (93.35 × 76.84 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.301

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "Andy Warhol"

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn blue board backing, bottom, stamps in black ink: picture of an armadillo (framer's logo) on the left and "KNIGHT WORKS, INK / 240 PARKER AVENUE / CLIFTON, N.J. 07011 / (201) 478-3034" on the right.

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DescriptionGrid of four images, stitched together with white thread, of a woman with short hair facing a man who is partially cropped from view.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

American Photographs: Selections From The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS, September 15 - September 29, 2006, no cat.

In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 8 - June 15, 2008, no cat

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Perhaps more than any other artist, Andy Warhol understood the interplay of photography and fame and the power of the mass-produced image. By repeating a single photograph of actress Lana Turner, Warhol suggests that a sense of real character is diluted and abstracted through public exposure. As he said: “The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.” Warhol uses his own snapshot of Turner, underscoring the public’s appetite for voyeuristic images of the famous.

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