![]() ![]() In this image, RFK is neither his dapper brother’s ghost nor his ostentatious father’s emissary. His tie loosened, his eyes filled with determination, he wears none of the polish associated with his brother, President John F. To capture the frenzy of Kennedy’s campaign and his zeal for change, Lichtenstein gives him the look of a superhero ready for battle.Īnother 1968 portrait by Gardner Cox, also on view at the museum, depicts RFK sitting, somber, a man buried in thought. Using bright colors, Lichtenstein represents the emotional force of a fighter pushing himself to the limit as he nears the final primaries of his campaign. In his graphic print, now on display at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery to mark the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, Lichtenstein produced a fierce facsimile of a man with a message. Time commissioned it as a cover image for May 24, 1968, just two weeks before Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles. Kennedy emerges as a red-hot rebel in a Roy Lichtenstein pop art print. Driven by a peacemaker’s passion and righteous urgency, presidential candidate Robert F. ![]()
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