James Francis Gill (American, Born 1934)

Signed: Gill 8 (Lower, Center)

" Surreal Jackie II ", 2008

(Jackie Kennedy)

Acrylic over Print on Canvas

Housed in its 2 3/4" original Frame

Overall Size: 38 3/8" x 30 1/8"

The painting is in very good original condition. Very small loss to frame corners, the frame is original to the piece. Ready to be hung and enjoyed.

Artist Biography:

James Gill is an American painter who is a member of the first generation of Pop Art artists of the 1960s. Born in Tahoka, Texas, and raised in San Angelo, he developed an early interest in art, encouraged by his mother, an interior decorator. After serving in the United States Marine Corps (1953-1956), he worked as an architectural illustrator. In 1962, he moved to Los Angeles and quickly gained national attention. That year, his “Marilyn Triptych ” was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, placing him among emerging Pop Art leaders such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg.

His paintings explore celebrity culture, politics, war, and media imagery, especially during the Vietnam War era. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he exhibited internationally, lectured at several universities, and saw his works enter major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Gill withdrew from public view in the early 1970s and spent decades refining his art in relative isolation. He re-emerged in the 2000s with works that blended realism and abstraction, cementing his reputation as a pioneering and intellectually nuanced figure in American Pop Art.