The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is among Washington institutions mourning the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who was laid to rest during the weekend at Arlington National Cemetary.
The gallery has installed a portrait of the late senator in a first-floor remembrance gallery at the museum. The black-and-white silk screen was painted by pop artist Andy Warhol in 1980 to raise money for Kennedy’s presidential run.
It “plays off the colors of the American flag and suggests the glamour of politics by enhancing the candidate’s features with thin red and blue lines and diamond dust,” according to the Gallery.
The work is on display indefinitely.
