In the weeks that followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Warhol began to collect pictures of the widowed First Lady that flooded the popular press. He had silkscreens made of his various Jackie images and, upon his move into a new studio (the first of his famous New York "Factories") on East 47th Street at the end of January 1964, began to print them on small canvases with blue- and gold-colored grounds. The close-cropped image here reproduces a moment shortly before any shots were fired, and the replication of the picture, over and over again, puts the ubiquitous coverage and public obsession with the tragic event into high relief.

Signature: 1983.606.14 Signed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.15 Signed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.16 (blue Jackie) Signed on verso of canvas (lower right, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower center, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.17 Signed on verso of canvas (lower right, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower right, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.18 Signed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.19 (gold Jackie) Signed on verso of canvas (along right side, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (right edge, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.20 Signed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.21 Signed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol 1983.606.22 (faded blue Jacke) Signed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol Signed on verso on painted canvas flap (lower left, in pencil): Andy Warhol

Inscription: 1983.606.14 Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower right, in pencil): Halston Inscribed on stretcher (upper left, in black marker): D 1983.606.15 Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Halston Inscribed stretcher (upper left, in black marker): B 1983.606.16 (blue Jackie) Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Halston Inscribed on stretcher (upper left, in black marker): A 1983.606.17 Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower right, in pencil): Halston Inscribed on stretcher (upper left, in black marker): F 1983.606.18 Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Halston Inscribed on stretcher (upper left, in black marker): E 1983.606.19 (gold Jackie) Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Halston 1983.606.20 Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): Halston 1983.606.21 Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower left, in pencil): ¦Halston¦ Inscribed on stretcher (upper left, in black marker): C 1983.606.22 (faded bule Jackie) Inscribed on verso of canvas (lower right, in pencil): Halston Inscribed on stretcher (upper left, in black marker): G

Georg Frei and Neil Printz, eds. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne: Paintings and Sculptures, 1964-1969. London: Phaidon, 2004, vol. 2A, cat. no. 959, pp. 103-5, 130 (illus.), 145.