The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Crystal Bridges Museum
Dolly Parton, Andy Warhol, 1985
By 1985, two years before his sudden death, Warhol was richer than ever but his most inventive years were behind him. He was devoting much of his time to churning out the silkscreen portraits that brought him a handsome income. Though his insight into art as a form of mass production had been best expressed in the 60s, his monumental head of Dolly Parton is undeniably funny, worth pausing over just for the cumulonimbus cloudburst of her hair.
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