Sitting Bull

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Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)

Title Sitting Bull

Date 1986

Medium Color silkscreen on paperboard

Dimensions Image: 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Sheet: 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Credit Line Extra, out of the edition. Designated for research and educational purposes only. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2013.156

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Although Andy Warhol is often associated with images of celebrities derived from popular culture, he also utilized historical sources. Some of his portraits reflected societal changes of the late 1960s and early 1970s. His portrait of the nineteenth-century Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, based on an archival photograph, followed the rise of the Red Power (American Indian) Movement. It was intended for his series "Cowboys and Indians," but was not included at the last minute and replaced with another image.

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