The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Exhibits Portrait of Ted Kennedy Painted by Andy Warhol

By Mark Westall • 28 August 2009
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image:Edward Moore Kennedy / Andy Warhol / Screenprint with diamond dust on board, 1980 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery installed a portrait of Sen. Edward Kennedy by Andy Warhol. It went on view when the museum opened to the public at 11:30 a.m. in a first-floor gallery that is designated for remembrance of recently deceased individuals represented in the gallery’s collection.

Warhol’s silkscreened portrait of Kennedy was created in 1980 to raise funds for Kennedy’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. A special feature of the print is Warhol’s use of the colors of the American flag and diamond dust. The Portrait Gallery acquired the portrait in 2000.

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