Action Picture
Andy Warhol, American, 1928 - 1987
1986
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Trial Proof 21/36
Sheet: 36 × 36 in. (91.5 × 91.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Kent M. Klineman, Class of 1954
PR.998.57.3
Portfolio / Series Title
Cowboys and Indians
Printer
Rupert Jasen Smith, Andy Warhol Studios, New York, New York
Publisher
Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., New York, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and numbered, in graphite, lower left: TP 21/36 Andy Warhol; stamped, in black ink, on reverse, lower right: c [copyright] ANDY WARHOL 1986 / PUBLISHER: / GAULTNEY-KLINEMAN ART INC. / NEW YORK; embossed, lower right:
Label
Produced in 1986, the year before the artist’s death, Andy Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians portfolio is a complex exploration of the tensions between colonization and expansion, Native American culture and its romanticization, and the ways in which these deeply entangled historical narratives become part of American visual culture. By removing the landscape or background, Warhol calls attention to how American histories and experiences have been flattened and mobilized within popular culture. Here, he invites us to reconsider our perceptions of these iconic figures, the narratives surrounding them, and the impact of these images upon our understandings of those depicted.
From the 2026 exhibition American Pop, curated by Jami Powell (Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art), Evonne Fuselier (Hood Museum Board of Advisors Mutual Learning Fellow, Curatorial), and Beatriz Yanes Martinez (former Hood Museum Board of Advisors Mutual Learning Fellow, Curatorial, 2021-2024)
Exhibition History
American Pop, Churchill and Dorothy Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 13, 2025 - November 7, 2025.
Provenance
Kent M. Klineman (1932-2015), New York; given to present collection, 1998.
Catalogue Raisonne
F. Feldman and J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987, Milan, 1997, p. 149, no. IIB.375.
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