Warhol and Jackie: Crafting the End of Camelot

SNEAK PREVIEW for Wecht Symposium Attendees!
Friday, Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m.
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Transportation will be provided.

Warhol and Jackie: Crafting the End of Camelot in collaboration with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas November 22, 2003 through March 21, 2004

Presented as part of the national 40th anniversary commemoration of President Kennedy's assassination, Warhol and Jackie presents the fateful event of November 22, 1963 and the years that followed through the lens of Jacqueline Kennedy and Andy Warhol. As the course of a national tragedy unfolded in front of millions of television viewers, Jackie Kennedy-debutante, fashion plate, media start and now widow-was left alone to craft the end of Camelot and to assure her late husband's presidential legacy.

Warhol appreciated Jackie's stagecraft and use of iconography. Already the spin-doctor for every product, person and issue that dominated the early 1960s, Warhol set for himself the task of painting hundreds of small images of Jackie as the grieving widow. In all her elegiac beauty and grandeur, she became the embodiment of the nation's sorrow and an icon in Warhol's oeuvre.

Drawing from the collections of The Andy Warhol Museum and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the exhibition will include more than 20 works of art, dozens of historical artifacts, archival records, popular memorabilia, and large-scale photographic reproductions, brought together in order to bridge the gap between history and art history in the retelling of the end of Camelot.