Gold Marilyn Monroe

Andy Warhol · 1962

This is Gold Marilyn Monroe, made in nineteen sixty-two in the weeks after Monroe's death. Her face floats on a field of gold, which is how Byzantine icons treat a saint — a comparison Warhol was perfectly aware of.

Medium Silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas · Dimensions 6' 11 1/4" x 57" (211.4 x 144.7 cm) · Credit Gift of Philip Johnson

Hanging beside it in Gallery 420: Edge of Town, Untitled

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, The Cross, Self-Portrait I, Kenneth Fearing, Painter [Heinrich Hoerle], Woman's Head

More by Andy Warhol here: The Last Supper, Campbell's Soup Cans, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times