Object number2008.7.16

Emily Landau

Date1981

Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)

CultureAmerican

MediumInstant dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid Polacolor 2)

DimensionsImage: 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. (9.53 x 7.3 cm)
Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

Credit LineGift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in honor of its 20th anniversary

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper edge in pencil: FA04.07483; lower right corner: RM

MarkingsOn recto, blindstamped lower right margin: © ANDY WARHOL; on verso, stamped lower left and right in blue ink (each within a circle): Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts [A / W at center]; The Estate / of / Andy Warhol; stamped lower center in black ink: POLACOLOR 2 M119431

BibliographyLombino, Mary-Kay, The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation. New York: DelMonico, 2013, p. 198 ProvenanceThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Vassar Exhibitions

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation

Exhibition HistoryThe Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, December 19, 2013 - March 23, 2014;

People are Beautiful: Prints, Photographs, and Films by Andy Warhol, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 26 - April 12, 2018

DescriptionPortrait of an older woman, Emily Landau, from the chest up wearing red lipstick and a white powdered complexion that stops halfway down her chest. She has short brown hair, sharp cheekbones, and looks directly into the camera with one shoulder slightly angled down.

Terms

female

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