"Flash-November 22, 1963, 1968," by Andy Warhol (Feldman/Schellmann: II.35)

Flash-November 22, 1963, 1968; Screenprint on wove paper, an unsigned proof apart from the signed edition of 200; Housed in original folder with a page of Teletype text; Published by Racolin Press, Inc., Briarcliff Manor, New York; Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York; Size - Sheet 21" x 21"; Catalog Raisonne: Feldman/Schellmann: II.35; Unframed.

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John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 shocked the nation and sent a wave of mourning across the country. Andy Warhol, who was just 35 years old, stated:

"I heard the news over the radio when I was alone painting in my studio. I don’t think I missed a stroke. I wanted to know what was going on out there, but that was the extent of my reaction. …  I’d been thrilled having Kennedy as president; he was handsome, young, smart–but it didn’t bother me that much that he was dead. What bothered me was the way the television and radio were programming everybody to feel so sad. It seemed like no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t get away from the thing…. John Quinn, the playwright … was moaning over and over, “But Jackie was the most glamorous First Lady we’ll every get.”"

Warhol immediately launched into a series of Jackie Kennedy portraits entitled “16 Jackies” that, in his typical fashion, expressed as he stated “detachment from emotions," an attitude he regarded as characteristic of the 1960s in general. Warhol often used tragic or horrific events that appeared in the media as source material for artwork. For Warhol, “the more you look at exactly the same thing, the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel.”

Andy Warhol would become obsessed, just like most of the world of the early 1960's, with the Kennedy assassination; and especially the media’s reporting and it's representation. The event and those involved, became the subject of creative output for Warhol throughout the 1960s. In 1966 Warhol created three prints focusing on Jacqueline Kennedy. The source of the images were either taken from the Dealey Plaza event or from JFK’s funeral service.

Two years later, Warhol returned to the same subject, but now focusing on the assassination itself. He created “Flash-November 23, 1963”, a portfolio of eleven individual prints. For source material, Warhol turned to the primary media of the time: newspaper articles, official government photographs, and portraits of President Kennedy and the First Lady. The 1968 portfolio was named for "News Flash," Teletype machine texts that were used to report the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in real time. The print portfolio box cover included an image of the November 22, 1963, New York World-Telegram front page, with the headline "President Shot Dead." Serigraphed actual Teletype texts were used as print folders for each individual work.

Page one of the original folder with Teletype text.

Andy Warhol used eleven different images, each created in bright bold colors to illustrate the horrific event. Some of the images are a smiling John F. Kennedy as he campaigns for the presidency, while another is a collage of Kennedy’s campaign images combined with that of a director’s clapboard. One print is the official Seal of the President of the United States, while another is the rifle advertisement for the suspected murder weapon. There is an image of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald created in bright neon pink, an image of the Texas School Book Depository with an arrow pointing to a window on the sixth floor, and another with a centered image of a smiling Jackie wearing her iconic pillbox hat. In the eleven prints of "Flash-November 23, 1963," Andy Warhol created an extremely poignant, yet powerful glimpse into an American event that had been both covered extensively and exploited by the media. The underlying reality was that the hope of America for a better tomorrow was shattered in a flash; and the dream replaced by one of the saddest events of the twentieth century.

Page two of the original folder with Teletype text.

This work is composed of several images of a smiling John F. Kennedy, combined with text banners of Kennedy for President. The choice of the single red color that is screened both in mat and high gloss, significantly enhances the power of the images. A really spectacular work, from one of the greatest series of prints ever created by Andy Warhol!

The Teletype text printed on two pages of the print folders is below (Note: Misspelled words in the original text were not corrected nor was the original spacing):

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   THE PRESIDENT WAS KILLED BY A BULLET THROUGH THE BRAIN FIRED AS HE RODE IN A MOTORCADE THROUGH DOWNTOWN DALLAS. TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN B CONNALLY, J4., RIDING IN THE SAME CAR, WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST, RIBS AND ARM. HIS CONDITION WAS DESCRIBED AS XXX SERIOUS, BUT NOT CRITICAL.

   VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, RIDING THREE CARS BACK, WAS UNINJURED. MR. JOHNSON WAS SWORN IN AS THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 99 MINUTES AFTER XXXX MR. KENNEDY WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 1:00 P.M. (CST). MR. JOHNSON IS 55 YEARS OLD; MR. KENNEDY WAS 46. 

   SHORTLY AFTER 2 P.M. DALLAS POLICE ANNOUNCED THEY HAD ARRESTED A "HOT SUSPECT " IN THE ASSASSINATION. HE WAS IDENTIFIED A LEE HARVEY OSWALD, 24, WHO IS EMPLOYED AS THE TEXAS BOOK DEPOSITORY, ADJACENT TO THE MURDER SCENE. OWALD, WHO FORMERLY LIVED IN THE SOVIET UNIOJ, WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SALYING OF J. B. TIPPIT, A X DALLAS PATROLMAN, SHORTLY AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS KILLED.

   THE PRESIDENT WAS STRUCK DOWN AS HE RODE IN AN OPEN CAR XXXX ON HIS WAY TO THE DALLAS TRADE MART, WHERE HE WAS TO DELIVER A SPEECH TO A GROUP OF THE CITY'S LEADING CITIZENS. HE HAD ARRIVED IN DALLAS FROM FORT WORTH AT 11:37 A.M. (CST) TODAY.

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   THE THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN QUICK SUCCESSION AT 12:20 P.M.(CST). JUST AS THE PRESIDENT'S CAR WAS APPROACHING A TRIPLE OVERPASS. MR. KENNEDY, WHO WAS WAVING AT THE THINNED OUT CROWDS, CLUTCHED AT HIS THROAT AND TOPPLED OVER ONTO THE X LAP OF HIS WIFE, WHO JUMPED UP AND SHOUTED. "OH, NO!" SECRET SERVICE AGENT CLINT HILL LEAPED ONTO THE BACK OF THE PRESIDENT'S CAR AND ORDERED THE DRIVER TO SPEED AHEAD TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL, THREE AND HALF MILES DOWN THE ROAD.

   ARRIVING AT THE HOSPITAL, MR. KENNEDY AND GOV. CONNALLY, WHO WAS ALSO BEING HELD BY HIS WIFE, WERE RUSED INTO EMERGENCY ROOMS. SOON AFTER THEIR ARRIVAL, WOT PRIESTS WERE SUMMONED TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S SIDE. ON LEAVING THE EMERGENCY ROOM, THE PRIESTX REPORTED THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD DIED OF HIS WOUNDS. WHITE HOUSE AIDES, AT FIRST UNCERTAIN, CONFIRMED THE REPORT AT 1:33 P.M. (CST). 

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   WASHINGTON, NOV. 22 -- FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT LLYNDON BAINES JOHNSON ON ARRIVAL AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN THE PLANE CARRYING THE BODY OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY:

   "THIS IS A SAD TIME FOR ALL PEOPLE. WE HAVE SUFFERED A LOSS THAT CANNOT BE WEIGHE. FOR ME IT IS A DEEP PERSONAL TRAGEDY. I KNOW THE WORLD SHARES THE SORROW THAT MRS. KENNEDY AND HERXX FAMILY BEAR. I WILL DO MY BEST. THAT IS ALL I CAN DO. I ASK FOR YOUR HELP -- AND XXXX GOD'S."

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"Foot Medication Poster," 1963; Lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein

Foot Medication Poster, 1963; Lithograph on off-white wove paper; Signed Roy Lichtenstein 53/100 in pencil lower left; "Roy Lichtenstein, FOOT MEDICATION, 1963." printed lower right; Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Size - Sheet 23" x 16 3/4", Image 15 1/2" x 15 1/2", Mat 30 x 24"; Single matted; Catalog Raisonne: Corlett: App. 3.

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"Drawing is the basis of my art. It is where my thinking takes place." - Roy Lichtenstein

Between 1961 and 1968 during the height of the Pop art movement, Roy Lichtenstein created about fifty large black-and-white drawings. The source of the imagery was derived from consumer pop culture, and included such banal objects as baked potatoes, commercial advertisements (including foot medication), and BB guns. The drawings were created to be reminiscent of cheap printed commercial illustrations, and were conceived and created completely independently from paintings of the same time period.

Close up of the image of "Foot Medication Poster," 1963.

Foot Medication Poster was created to advertise an artist group drawing show at Leo Castelli Gallery from May 20 - June 30, 1963. Printed in large type in the bottom margin of the poster was the following:

Drawings

Lee Bontecou * Nassos Daphnis * Jasper Johns

Roy Lichtenstein * Robert Moskowitz

Robert Rauschenberg * Frank Stella

Jack Tworkov * Gerald van de Wiele

Saturday May 18th through June 1963 * Leo Castelli * 4 East 77

The image used for the poster was one of Roy Lichtenstein's drawings that was included in the exhibition, "Foot Medication" (Bianchini 1971, no. 62.2). Some of the posters were printed without the exhibition text and 100 of those were hand signed and numbered by Roy Lichtenstein. It is this signed and numbered edition that is the most rare and desired by both collectors and museums (The Museum of Modern Art, NY has a signed and numbered impression in their permanent collection).

Close up of the Roy Lichtenstein hand signature and the edition number.

Close up of the printed artist name, title, and date for "Foot Medication Poster," 1963.

Roy Lichtenstein's series of paintings from 1973-74 entitled Artist's Studios, marked the beginning of the integration of his own artworks back into his paintings. The series was inspired by Henri Matisse's paintings Red Studio and Pink Studio, both from 1911. The works contain specific Matisse imagery, fruit and foliage from his still lifes, and his famed dancers; all re-purposed back into an interior studio still life. Lichtenstein repurposed Matisse's idea, but with a modern format.

Artist's Studio "Foot Medication", 1974

Oil and Magna on canvas

243.8 x 325.1 cm (96 x 128 in.)

Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection, 2015.131

In this wonderful and large canvas entitled: Artist's Studio "Foot Medication", 1974, (Chicago Institute of Art) Lichtenstein created a room interior that is populated with his own paintings. The most prominent painting in the room is "Foot Medication" hanging in the upper left of the composition, directly above a radiator.

Matted "Foot Medication Poster," 1963.

This is a rare and important work by Roy Lichtenstein, and it is an image that he would use and rework for decades. The image of "Foot Medication" is that of a hand dabbing medication onto the top of a foot using a cotton ball. A large benday dot image from the early 1960's, from the most collected time period in the Pop Art movement. A great addition to any art collection!

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"Flash-November 22, 1963, 1968," by Andy Warhol (Feldman/Schellmann: II.42)

Flash-November 22, 1963, 1968; Screenprint on wove paper, an unsigned proof apart from the signed edition of 200; Housed in original folder with a page of Teletype text; Published by Racolin Press, Inc., Briarcliff Manor, New York; Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York; Size - Sheet 21" x 21"; Catalog Raisonne: Feldman/Schellmann: II.42; Unframed.

To purchase this work or to visit the Art Gallery, CLICK HERE!   

John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 shocked the nation and sent a wave of mourning across the country. Andy Warhol, who was just 35 years old, stated:

"I heard the news over the radio when I was alone painting in my studio. I don’t think I missed a stroke. I wanted to know what was going on out there, but that was the extent of my reaction. …  I’d been thrilled having Kennedy as president; he was handsome, young, smart–but it didn’t bother me that much that he was dead. What bothered me was the way the television and radio were programming everybody to feel so sad. It seemed like no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t get away from the thing…. John Quinn, the playwright … was moaning over and over, “But Jackie was the most glamorous First Lady we’ll every get.”"

Warhol immediately launched into a series of Jackie Kennedy portraits entitled “16 Jackies” that, in his typical fashion, expressed as he stated “detachment from emotions," an attitude he regarded as characteristic of the 1960s in general. Warhol often used tragic or horrific events that appeared in the media as source material for artwork. For Warhol, “the more you look at exactly the same thing, the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel.”

Andy Warhol would become obsessed, just like most of the world of the early 1960's, with the Kennedy assassination; and especially the media’s reporting and it's representation. The event and those involved, became the subject of creative output for Warhol throughout the 1960s. In 1966 Warhol created three prints focusing on Jacqueline Kennedy. The source of the images were either taken from the Dealey Plaza event or from JFK’s funeral service.

Two years later, Warhol returned to the same subject, but now focusing on the assassination itself. He created “Flash-November 23, 1963”, a portfolio of eleven individual prints. For source material, Warhol turned to the primary media of the time: newspaper articles, official government photographs, and portraits of President Kennedy and the First Lady. The 1968 portfolio was named for "News Flash," Teletype machine texts that were used to report the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in real time. The print portfolio box cover included an image of the November 22, 1963, New York World-Telegram front page, with the headline "President Shot Dead." Serigraphed actual Teletype texts were used as print folders for each individual work.

Page one of the original folder with Teletype text.

Andy Warhol used eleven different images, each created in bright bold colors to illustrate the horrific event. Some of the images are a smiling John F. Kennedy as he campaigns for the presidency, while another is a collage of Kennedy’s campaign images combined with that of a director’s clapboard. One print is the official Seal of the President of the United States, while another is the rifle advertisement for the suspected murder weapon. There is an image of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald created in bright neon pink, an image of the Texas School Book Depository with an arrow pointing to a window on the sixth floor, and another with a centered image of a smiling Jackie wearing her iconic pillbox hat. In the eleven prints of "Flash-November 23, 1963," Andy Warhol created an extremely poignant, yet powerful glimpse into an American event that had been both covered extensively and exploited by the media. The underlying reality was that the hope of America for a better tomorrow was shattered in a flash; and the dream replaced by one of the saddest events of the twentieth century.

Page two of the original folder with Teletype text.

This work is composed of a pair of mirror images of a smiling John F. Kennedy, combined with text banners of Kennedy for President. The choice of colors (red and blue) creates an optical effect, which significantly enhances the power of the images. A really spectacular work, from one of the greatest series of prints ever created by Andy Warhol!

The Teletype text printed on two pages of the print folders is below (Note: Misspelled words in the original text were not corrected nor was the original spacing):

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   BULLETIN 2ND LEAD OSWALD

   DALLAS, NOV. 24 -- LEE HARVEY OSWALD, ACCUSED SLAYER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, DIED TODAY IN PARKLAND HOSPITAL, WHERE THE LATE PRESIDENT WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD XXXX TWO DAYS AGO.

   WASHINGTON, NOV X 24 -- AS GREAT LINES OF PEOPLE FILED PAST THE BIER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY -- LONG PAST THE SCHEDULED 9:00 P.M. CLOSING TIME -- MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY AN HER XXX BOROTHER-IN-LAW, ATTORNEY XXXXX GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY, RETURNED TO THE CAPTIAL ROTUNDA TONIGHT.

   MRS. KENNEDY WALKED THROUGH THE HUGE THRONG, PAUSED FOR A MOMENT IN FRONT OF THEX CATAFALQUE AND THEN LEFT. ON HER WAY OUT, SHE PAUSED AGAIN AND STARED AT THE XXXXX HUSHED THRONG. THEN SHE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WALKED DOWN CAPITOL HILL AND ACROSS A LAWN TO A WAITING LIMOUSINE.

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FOURTH DAY

  WASHINGTON, NOV. 23 -- PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY WAS BURIED TODAY IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

   THE XXX SLAIN PRESIDENT WAS LAID TO REST AT 3:34 P.M. (EST) ON A GRASSY SLOPE WITHIN VIEW OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL AND THE CAPITOL.

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   MR. KENNEDY'S BODY, WHICH HAD BEEN CARRIED FROM THE CAPITAL ROTUNDA THIS MORNING WAS XXXX TAKEN FIRST TO ST. MATTHEW'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL, WHERE A PONTIFICAL XXX REQUIEM MASS WAS SAID BY RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING OF BOSTON. FROM THERE, THE CORTEGE PROCEEDED TO THE NATIONAL CEMETERY, WHERE CARDINAL CUSHING INTOLED THE ANTIENT LATIN PHRASES AND REFERRED TO THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT AS "THIS WONDERFUL MAN, JACK KENNEDY."

   THE DAY STARTED AT 10:41 A.M., WHEN MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY, ACCOMPANIED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND SENATOR EDWARD XXX M. KENNEDY, ENTERED THE ROTUNDA AND KNELT FOR A MOMENT BESIDE THE SLAIN PRESIDENT'S CASKET. EIGHT XX PALLBEARERS THEN CARRIED THE CASKET DOWN THE CAPITOL STEPS THROUGH LINES OF SENTINELS FROM ALL ARMED SERVICES, AND PLACED IT ON THE CASSON THAT HAD BROUGHT IT TO THE CAPITOL ON SUNDAY. SIX GRAY HORSES PULLED THE CAISSON, FOLLOWED BY A SAILOR CARRYING THE PRESIDENTIAL FLAG AND A RIDERLESS HORSE, WITH BOOTS REVERSED IN THE STIRRUPS, TO SIGNIFY THE LOSS OF A LEADER.

   THE PROCESSION MOVED PAST THE WHITE HOUSE, WHERE WORLD LEADERS WHO HAD COME TO WASHINGTON FOR THE FUNERAL, WAITED XX FOR MRS. KENNEDY TO COME OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE AND THEN FELL INTO LINE BEHIND THE CORTEGE. ABOUT FIVE YARDS BEHIND THE KENNEDY FAMILY WERE PRESIDENT AND MRS. JOHNSON, WHO WERE SURROUNDED BY SECURITY AGENTS.

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"Flash-November 22, 1963, 1968," by Andy Warhol (Feldman/Schellmann: II.34)

Flash-November 22, 1963, 1968; Screenprint on wove paper, an unsigned proof apart from the signed edition of 200; Housed in original folder with a page of Teletype text; Published by Racolin Press, Inc., Briarcliff Manor, New York; Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York; Size - Sheet 21" x 21"; Catalog Raisonne: Feldman/Schellmann: II.34; Unframed.

To purchase this work or to visit the Art Gallery, CLICK HERE!   

John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 shocked the nation and sent a wave of mourning across the country. Andy Warhol, who was just 35 years old, stated:

"I heard the news over the radio when I was alone painting in my studio. I don’t think I missed a stroke. I wanted to know what was going on out there, but that was the extent of my reaction. …  I’d been thrilled having Kennedy as president; he was handsome, young, smart–but it didn’t bother me that much that he was dead. What bothered me was the way the television and radio were programming everybody to feel so sad. It seemed like no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t get away from the thing…. John Quinn, the playwright … was moaning over and over, “But Jackie was the most glamorous First Lady we’ll every get.”"

Warhol immediately launched into a series of Jackie Kennedy portraits entitled “16 Jackies” that, in his typical fashion, expressed as he stated “detachment from emotions," an attitude he regarded as characteristic of the 1960s in general. Warhol often used tragic or horrific events that appeared in the media as source material for artwork. For Warhol, “the more you look at exactly the same thing, the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel.”

Andy Warhol would become obsessed, just like most of the world of the early 1960's, with the Kennedy assassination; and especially the media’s reporting and it's representation. The event and those involved, became the subject of creative output for Warhol throughout the 1960s. In 1966 Warhol created three prints focusing on Jacqueline Kennedy. The source of the images were either taken from the Dealey Plaza event or from JFK’s funeral service.

Two years later, Warhol returned to the same subject, but now focusing on the assassination itself. He created “Flash-November 23, 1963”, a portfolio of eleven individual prints. For source material, Warhol turned to the primary media of the time: newspaper articles, official government photographs, and portraits of President Kennedy and the First Lady. The 1968 portfolio was named for "News Flash," Teletype machine texts that were used to report the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in real time. The print portfolio box cover included an image of the November 22, 1963, New York World-Telegram front page, with the headline "President Shot Dead." Serigraphed actual Teletype texts were used as print folders for each individual work.

Page one of the original folder with Teletype text.

Andy Warhol used eleven different images, each created in bright bold colors to illustrate the horrific event. Some of the images are a smiling John F. Kennedy as he campaigns for the presidency, while another is a collage of Kennedy’s campaign images combined with that of a director’s clapboard. One print is the official Seal of the President of the United States, while another is the rifle advertisement for the suspected murder weapon. There is an image of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald created in bright neon pink, an image of the Texas School Book Depository with an arrow pointing to a window on the sixth floor, and another with a centered image of a smiling Jackie wearing her iconic pillbox hat. In the eleven prints of "Flash-November 23, 1963," Andy Warhol created an extremely poignant, yet powerful glimpse into an American event that had been both covered extensively and exploited by the media. The underlying reality was that the hope of America for a better tomorrow was shattered in a flash; and the dream replaced by one of the saddest events of the twentieth century.

Page two of the original folder with Teletype text.

This work, a centered image of a smiling First Lady Jackie Kennedy wearing her iconic pillbox hat, is certainly one the highlights of the entire portfolio. The print was created using shades of peacock blue, which add to the overall richness of the composition. A really spectacular work, from one of the greatest series of prints ever created by Andy Warhol!

The Teletype text printed on two pages of the print folders is below (Note: Misspelled words in the original text were not corrected nor was the original spacing):

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   WASHINGTON, NOV. 22 -- AN AIR FORCE JET CARRYING SIX CABINET MEMBERS TO CONFERENCES IN TOKYO TURNED BACK TO WASHINGTON AFTER RECEIVING NEWS OF THE ASSASSINATION, THE STATE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED. THE PLANE IS EXPECTED IN WASHINGTON AT 1 A.M. (EST) TOMORROW. 

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   FLASH

   DALLAS -- POLICE ARREST "HOT SUSPECT".

   BULLETIN 1ST LEAD SUSPECT

   DALLAS, NOV. 22 --  DALLAS POLICE ANNOUNCED THEY HAVE ARRESTED A "HOT SUSPECT" IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

   HE WAS IDENTIFIED AS LEE H. OSWALD, 24, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE TEXAS BOOK DEPOSITORY, ADJACENT TO THE SITE WHERE THE PRESIDENT WAS SHOT DOWN. OSWALD, WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED EARLIER IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING OF A DALLAS POLICEMAN, FORMERLY IVED IN THE SOVIET UNION AND WAS ACTIVE IN THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE.

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   BULLETIN

   DALLAS, NOV. 22 -- LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON WA SWORN IN AS THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT 2:39P.M.(CST) ABOARD THE PRESIDENTIAL JET AIR FORCE ONE ON A RUNWAY AT LOVE FIELD.

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   THE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE WITHIN MOMENTS AFTER THE COFFIN CONTAINING THE BODY OF SLAIN PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS LOADED ABOARD THE PLANE. MRS. JOHNSON, MRS. KENNEDY AND A GROUP OF WHITE HOUSE AIDES ATTENDED THE OATH-TAKING, WHICH WAS ADMINISTERED BY FEDERAL JUDGE SARAH T. HUGHES, WHO WAS APPOINTED TO OFFICE BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN OCTOBER, 1961.

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   WASHINGTON, NOV. 22 -- THE XXXX AIR FORCE JET CARRYING PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE BODY OF ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY LANDED AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE SHORTLY AFTER 6 P.M. (EST).

   THE PLANE WAS MET BY AN HONOR GUARD OF AIRMEN IN DRESS UNIFORM, WITH RIFLES AND BAYONETS, AND BY HIGH-RANKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

   AS SOON AS THE PLANES ENGINES STOPPED, ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY, THE SLAIN PRESIDENT'S BROTHER, BOUNDED UP THE STEPS AND INTOTHE CABIN. WITHIN A FEW MINUTES, HE REAPPEARED AT THE DOORWAY WITH MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY AND THE TWO WATCHED, HAND IN HAND, AS THE COFFIN WAS LOWERED TO A WAITING NAVAL AMBULANCE, TO BE TAKEN TO BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL.

   MRS. KENNEDY, HERX DRESS AND STOCKINGS STILL SMEARED WITH HERX HUSBAND'S BLOOD, APPEARED COMPOSED. SHE RODE IN THE AMBULACE TO THE HOSPITAL.

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   NITE LEAD KENNEDY

   DALLAS, NOV. 22 -- PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED HERE TODAY.

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"U.N. Stamp," 1979 by Andy Warhol

U.N. Stamp, 1979; Lithograph on Rives paper; First-day cover cancellation of Swiss U.N. stamp lower left; Signed Andy Warhol in black ink vertically right margin; Printed signature lower right; Numbered 765/1000 in pencil lower center; Published by United Nations Disaster Relief Organization; Printer: United Nations; With original mailing envelope; Size - Sheet 8 1/2 x 11", Mailing envelope: 9 x 12"; Catalogue Raisonne: Feldman/Schellmann: II.185; Unframed.

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There is a history of Andy Warhol working on commissioned projects for a vast array of people, organizations, and causes. Warhol's early career was that of a commissioned commercial artist, so it is not surprising that he would accept, like so many artists, projects that he deemed exciting and important.

Andy Warhol's original print "U.N. Stamp" was commissioned by the World Federation of United Nations Association (WFUNA); an organization whose goal is to support the principles and purposes of the United Nations. For over two decades, the Association raised money for the United Nations through the sale of artworks that promoted the ideals of the UN and, in addition, raised money for it's educational programs.

Close up of the first-day cover cancellation of a Swiss U.N. stamp.

Close up of the printed signature.

Close up of the hand signature in black ink.

Back of the lithograph.

Close up of the World Federation of United Nations Associations stamp.

Close up of the Andy Warhol photo-collage stamp.

The WFUNA was founded in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on August 2, 1946 by 22 United Nations Associations. The founding was one year after the UN Charter was proclaimed with the opening words “We the peoples of the United Nations." Since it's inception, WFUNA has been the only global organization with the primary mission of supporting the principles and purposes of the United Nations.

Original mailing envelope.

Close up of the mailing address on the original mailing envelope.

Close up of the postage stamp cancellation on the original mailing envelope.

For several decades during the 20th century WFUNA conducted a fundraising program in order to promote the ideals of the UN. A large portion of the fundraising was based on the sale of first day covers of UN stamps and lithographs produced by artists and celebrities such as: Pablo Picasso, Lou Zheng Jang, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Ruben Leyva, Al Hirschfeld, and Andy Warhol. Warhol created the U.N. Stamp lithograph based off of a first-day cover of an actual United Nations stamp. The total edition for the lithograph is 1000, with 500 of the edition being the cancellation of the Swiss stamp and the other 500 being the cancellation of the U.S. stamp.

This is a very beautiful work that doubles in collectibility because it is both an original print by Andy Warhol and an original first day cover; which is perfect for a philatelist. The work also comes with the original mailing envelope.

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"Weather Vane," 1969-70; Aquatint by Helen Frankenthaler

 
Weather Vane, 1969-70; Aquatint on Buff Arches paper; Signed Frankenthaler and dated 1969-70 in pencil lower right and numbered 13/23 I in pencil lower left; Published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY (with their chop mark lower left); Catalogue Raisonne: Harrison 20; Size - Image 19 x 14", Sheet 30 x 22 1/4", Frame 31 1/2 x 24"; Framed floated on an acid free mat, wood frame, and UV conservation clear glass.

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Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter who exhibited artwork for over six decades starting from the early 1950's until her passing in 2011. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by the famed art critic Clement Greenberg; and the body of work presented in the show would latter be known as Color Field Painting. Frankenthaler's work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including the important 1989 retrospective held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2011 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Close up of "Weather Vane" by Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler is, without a question, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and is one of the very few female artists that would be included in such a list. She was married to the abstract expressionist artist Robert Motherwell, and had an intimate relationship with the famous art critic Clement Greenberg; so her connections within the art community run very deep. Frankenthaler was initially involved in the abstract expressionist movement but was looking for a path forward. After a trip in October to Nova Scotia, she had a breakthrough with a painting that she called "Mountains and Sea," 1952. The painting was abstract, and rather than painting the landscape seen on her trip, the work portrayed the experience itself. The composition was painted using a "soak stain" technique, whereby unprimed canvas duct is painted using oil paint that had been heavily thinned with turpentine. The effects of the technique reinforced the abstract nature of the landscape painting; and when the artists Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis saw it in her studio, their own painting styles and working methods were forever changed.

Close up of the Frankenthaler signature and the date.

Close up of the edition number and the ULAE chop mark.

Framed "Weather Vane" by Helen Frankenthaler

During the 1960's, ULAE published original prints by Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Cy Twombly, and many other major modern artists working at the time. This is the last print created in the 1960's and the last listed in the 1960's section of the Frankenthaler print catalogue raisonne. "Weather Vane" is an aquatint printed in five colors from two copper plates in the following sequence: 1) Beige 2) Olive, orage, purple-red, and blue-grey. The printing of the beige color first provides a centered ground that allows for the other colors, located in the four corners, to better activate the composition. The colors appear to have been poured onto the paper, referring back to the early post-painterly work done by Frankenther in the 1950's and 60's. This is a wonderful example of Frankenthaler at her best and a great addition to any art collection.

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"Solarium," 1964; Lithograph by Helen Frankenthaler

  
Solarium, 1964; Lithograph on white Rives BFK paper; Signed Frankenthaler and dated '64 in pencil lower right and numbered 10/18 in pencil lower left; Published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY (with their chop mark lower left); Catalogue Raisonne: Harrison 5; Size - Image: 17 3/4 x 13 3/4", Sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 1/4", Frame: 29 1/2 x 23 1/2"; Framed floated on an acid free mat, with a silver wood exterior frame, and UV plexiglass.

To purchase this work or to visit the Art Gallery, CLICK HERE! 

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter who exhibited artwork for over six decades starting from the early 1950's until her passing in 2011. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by the famed art critic Clement Greenberg; and the body of work presented in the show would latter be known as Color Field Painting. Frankenthaler's work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including the important 1989 retrospective held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2011 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Close up of "Solarium" by Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler is, without a question, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and is one of the very few female artists that would be included in such a list. She was married to the abstract expressionist artist Robert Motherwell, and had an intimate relationship with the famous art critic Clement Greenberg; so her connections within the art community run very deep. Frankenthaler was initially involved in the abstract expressionist movement but was looking for a path forward. Then, after a trip in October to Nova Scotia, had a breakthrough with a painting entitled "Mountains and Sea," 1952. The painting was abstract, and rather than painting the landscape seen on her trip, the work portrayed the experience itself. The composition was painted using a "soak stain" technique, whereby unprimed canvas duct is painted using oil paint that had been heavily thinned with turpentine. The effects of the technique reinforced the abstract nature of the landscape painting; and when the artists Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis saw it in her studio, their own painting styles and working methods were forever changed.

 
Close up of the Frankenthaler signature and the date.

Close up of the edition number and ULAE chop mark.

During the 1960's, ULAE published original prints by Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Cy Twombly, and many other major modern artists working at the time. In the 1960's ULAE established an etching studio and one the printers hired was Donn Steward. Steward had studied etching at the University of Iowa and had trained as a lithography printer at Tamarind. He worked with Frankenthaler and printed the four aquatints made at ULAE and in addition, he and Zigmunds Priede assisted in the printing of "Solarium."

The first five of Helen Frankenthaler's prints were all published by ULAE, and all have an edition size less than twenty-five. "Solarium," 1964 is the fifth print published by ULAE and it is part of the permanent collections of Musuem of Modern Art NY, The Art Institute of Chicago IL, The National Gallery of Art DC, and others. Because the edition size is only 18 and being part of several major museum's permanent collections and high end collectors; the probability is greatly reduced that the work is ever available in the open market.

Framed "Solarium," 1964; Lithograph by Helen Frankenthaler.

A solarium is "a room fitted with extensive areas of glass to admit sunlight." Helen Frankenthaler's choice of title is certainly appropriate for the work, as it is reminiscent of the experience of a solarium. The rich and textured blue sky, the rays of yellow and warm red-orange all combine with the empty spaces of the composition to evoke a relaxing and calm environment. This is an extremely rare and important work by Helen Frankenthaler and certainly a great addition to any fine art collection.

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