Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Rauschenberg Family)

Provenance

(Eleanor Ward, New York); purchased 1963 by Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Adams, New York;[1] gift 1982 to NGA. [1] Purchase Information was supplied by Mr. Adams in a letter to Earl A. Powell III, 28 March 2000; copy in NGA curatorial files. The painting first hung in the Adams' house in Jackson County, Missouri, and later in their residences in Princeton and Washington, D.C.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Rauschenberg Family)

Warhol, Andy

1962

Accession Number

1982.96.1

Medium

silkscreen on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 208.2 x 208.2 cm (81 15/16 x 81 15/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Adams and Patrons' Permanent Fund