The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

Liz

Liz

1964
(American, 1928–1987)
America, 20th century
color offset lithograph
Sheet: 58.7 x 58.7 cm (23 1/8 x 23 1/8 in.); Image: 55.8 x 55.8 cm (21 15/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Gift of Harvey and Penelope D. Buchanan 1998.409
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Feldman & Schellmann (3rd ed., 1997, revised by Feldman & DeFendi) II.7
Location: not on view

Description

Several turbulent events in her personal life made actress Elizabeth Taylor a magnet for the tabloids and a favored subject for Andy Warhol. Like the painting Marilyn x 100 (on view in the adjoining gallery), the artist used a publicity photograph as his source. In this case, it was an image for Taylor’s 1960 film BUtterfield 8. Underlying Warhol’s signature style is an enlarged halftone dot. The dot ties the image to a photograph that has been mass-produced and adds another layer of distance from the individual whose likeness is being endlessly repeated and objectified.
  • Cole, Mark, "A Paramount Picture", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 01, January 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9 archive.org
    Levy, Benjamin. “Photographs in Ink: The wonder of photomechanical processes.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 62, no. 3 (September 2022): 14-15. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 14.
  • Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Liz|url=false|author=Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York|year=1964|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.409