Cowboys And Indians (complete set)
Cowboys And Indians (complete set)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
91 x 91cm, Edition of 250, Screenprint, 1986
£520,000-£780,000
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Meaning & Analysis
Cowboys And Indians (complete set) is a 1986 screenprint portfolio by Andy Warhol of ten images drawn from the history and mythology of the American West. The subjects include John Wayne, Annie Oakley, General Custer, Geronimo, Theodore Roosevelt, and a Mother and Child, alongside a carved mask, kachina dolls, a shield and a coin. The set is signed and published in an edition of 250.
Made in the last year of Warhol’s life, Cowboys and Indians turns the portrait method he had used for film stars and socialites to figures of the American frontier. Its subjects range from performers and soldiers to Native American people and objects. Warhol treats them all in the same way, as images that have circulated widely and acquired a symbolic weight.
The portraits are printed in saturated colour over a photographic base. John Wayne points a revolver at the viewer in a brown hat and a blue shirt. Annie Oakley is shown in profile in a green hat and a jacket covered in medals. General Custer, in a wide red-orange hat, folds his arms. Geronimo is printed with a yellow face under blue-black hair. A mother carries her child on her back in a red and green blanket. Roosevelt appears in uniform in dark teal. The objects are treated with the same intensity: a Northwest Coast mask in blue and red, a pair of kachina dolls, a decorated shield with a feather, and a Buffalo nickel in silver with the word “LIBERTY”.
Together the Cowboys and Indians set looks at the West as an inherited image, partly history and partly Hollywood. The edition of 250 was the standard size for Warhol’s portfolios of the period.
