Nelson " How Am I Doing " Rockefeller's Warhol Portrait Goes On View

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Andy Warhol's 1967 portrait of Nelson Rockefeller went on display at the
mammoth state office complex that was built while Rockefeller was governor said
PA news. The portrait, which went up Tuesday, is on indefinite loan to the
state from Rockefeller's wife, Happy. The painting hangs in the lobby of the
Corning Tower alongside works by abstract expressionist artists including Franz
Kline, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell. Rockefeller, who was governor from
1958 to 1973 and vice president from 1974 to 1977, loved modern art and had the
state purchase the colorful works. The painting is in the style Warhol
pioneered in the 1960s. He would enlarge a snapshot of his subject and soften
the image in the silk screen-printing process, often adding brush work, as he
did with the bluish-gray Rockefeller portrait.