Andy Warhol

Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau

1984

Portrait of a woman with dark hair, red lips, and yellow earrings on a plain background.

Not on view

Date
1984

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Acrylic and screenprint on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 40 1/4 × 40 1/8 × 1 3/4in. (102.2 × 101.9 × 4.4 cm)

Accession number
2024.245

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/37974

Audio

Andy Warhol, Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau, 1984

In Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

0:00

Andy Warhol, Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau, 1984

0:00

Narrator: In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol began a series of commissioned portraits of the rich and famous. By the 1970s and 80s, these commissions were a vital, and lucrative, part of his practice. Warhol made this portrait of Emily Fisher Landau in 1984. He used his trademark method of making a color screen print from a Polaroid photograph. With its high contrast and bright flashes of color, the resulting image highlights certain features—lips, eye shadow, earrings, and hair—while downplaying others, such as skin tone. It transforms the sitter into a media celebrity in the style of Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley—stars that Warhol had previously captured in portraits using the same process.

Exhibitions

Installation photography

Installation view of Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019). Left wall, left to right, top to bottom: Truman Capote, 1979; Gianni Versace, 1979–80; Neil Sedaka, 1979; R.C. Gorman, 1979; Berkeley Reinhold, 1979; Carolina Herrera, 1979. Center wall, left to right, top to bottom: Martha Graham, 1980; Francesco Clemente, 1981; Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982; Robert Mapplethorpe, 1983; Stephen Sprouse, 1984; Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau, 1984; Douglas Cramer, 1985; Peter Halley, 1986; Suzie Frankfurt, c. 1985; Diamond Dust Joseph Beuys, 1980; Giorgio Armani, 1981; Keith Haring and John Dubose, 1983; Pia Zadora, 1983; Kenny and Zena Scharf, 1984; Teresa and Zena Scharf, 1984; Corice Arman, 1986; Arman, 1986; Debbie Harry, 1980; David Whitney, 1980; Jon Gould, 1981; Cornelia Guest, 1983; Tina Chow, 1983–84; Michael Chow, 1984; Pat Hearn, 1985; Donald Baechler, 1986; Aretha Franklin, 1986; Dolly Parton, 1986. Right wall, left to right, top to bottom: Sandy Brant, 1971; Sandy Brant, 1971; Sandy Brant, 1971; Sandy Brant, 1971. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

From the exhibition Andy Warhol— From A to B and  Back Again
Installation view of Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019). Left wall, left to right, top to bottom: Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau, 1984; Douglas Cramer, 1985; Peter Halley, 1986; Suzie Frankfurt, c. 1985; Teresa and Zena Scharf, 1984; Corice Arman, 1986; Arman, 1986; Debbie Harry, 1980; Pat Hearn, 1985; Donald Baechler, 1986; Aretha Franklin, 1986; Dolly Parton, 1986. Right wall, left to right, top to bottom: Sandy Brant, 1971; Sandy Brant, 1971; Sandy Brant, 1971; Sandy Brant, 1971; Bruno Bischofberger, 1971; Jed Johnson, c. 1973; Jed Johnson, c. 1973; Jed Johnson, c. 1973; Jed Johnson, c. 1973. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

From the exhibition Andy Warhol— From A to B and  Back Again
Installation view of Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019). Left wall, left to right, top to bottom: Mick Jagger, 1975–76; Farah Diba Pahlavi, 1976; Chris Evert, 1977; Pelé, 1977; Liza Minnelli, 1978; Truman Capote, 1979; Truman Capote, 1979; Gianni Versace, 1979–80; Roy Lichtenstein, 1976; Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, 1976; Muhammad Ali, 1977; Corice Arman, 1977; Self-Portrait, 1978; Henry Geldzahler, 1979; Neil Sedaka, 1979; R.C. Gorman, 1979; Jamie Wyeth, 1976; Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess of Iran, 1977; Kareem Abdul Jabar, 1977; Michael Heizer, 1978; Thomas Ammann, 1978; John Reinhold, 1979; Berkeley Reinhold, 1979; Carolina Herrera, 1979. Right wall, left to right, top to bottom: Martha Graham, 1980; Francesco Clemente, 1981; Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982; Robert Mapplethorpe, 1983; Stephen Sprouse, 1984; Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau, 1984; Douglas Cramer, 1985; Peter Halley, 1986; Diamond Dust Joseph Beuys, 1980; Giorgio Armani, 1981; Keith Haring and John Dubose, 1983; Pia Zadora, 1983; Kenny and Zena Scharf, 1984; Teresa and Zena Scharf, 1984; Corice Arman, 1986; Arman, 1986; David Whitney, 1980; Jon Gould, 1981; Cornelia Guest, 1983; Tina Chow, 1983–84; Michael Chow, 1984; Pat Hearn, 1985; Donald Baechler, 1986; Aretha Franklin, 1986. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

From the exhibition Andy Warhol— From A to B and  Back Again