"Vote McGovern"
Silkscreen, 1972, signed Andy Warhol and numbered 23/250 verso. Arches 88 paper, with the blindstamp of the printer and publisher Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. 106.5 x 106.5 cm.
Coppel, Daunt & Tallman 139.
Feldman & Schellmann 1997 II.84.
Warhol created this print as part of a fund-raiser for the Democratic candidate, Senator George McGovern during the US presidential election campaign in 1972. The image of Nixon, McGovern's Republican opponent, was taken from an official photograph published by Newsweek magazine on 27 January 1969.