Margaret Krebs
September 1981
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View on museum website →Medium
dye diffusion transfer print (Polacolor)
Dimensions
image: 9.5 × 7.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.) sheet: 10.8 × 8.6 cm (4 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)
Accession Number
2016.22.229
Art Historical Context
Andy Warhol's *Margaret Krebs* (September 1981) captures the essence of his late-career fascination with instant photography. This intimate dye diffusion transfer print, known as a Polacolor, measures just 9.5 × 7.3 cm—small enough to fit in your hand—yet it exemplifies Warhol's signature blend of celebrity glamour and mechanical reproduction. Created using Polaroid's innovative instant film process, where dyes transfer directly from a pod to create vivid, saturated colors without negatives, the work reflects Warhol's shift toward direct photographic output in the 1970s and 1980s. As a pionee...
About the Artist
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola Jr. on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the youngest of three sons to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Ondrej and Julia Warhola. His devout Byzantine Catholic family nurtured his artistic inclinations; bedridden at age eight with Sydenham's chorea, he drew from comic books and Hollywood magazines supplied by his artistic mother Julia, who later influenced ...