Warhol’s ‘Jackie’ series in Dallas

Andy Warhol’s “Jackie” works, a series of paintings and screen prints created between 1963 and 1968 that captured the moments before and after Jacqueline Kennedy was transformed from glamorous first lady to grieving widow, go on display in Dallas today.

For the first time, the pieces will be displayed at the building from which the bullets that killed her husband, President John F. Kennedy, were fired in 1963: the former School Book Depository. The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots from this site.

“Warhol had perhaps the most familiar images that deal with the assassination,” said Sixth Floor executive director Jeff West. “No other artist had the kind of immediacy that Warhol created.”

The exhibition will run through Oct. 26 on the building’s seventh floor, a newly renovated exhibition space one level above the museum’s historical exhibits. The show then moves to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, opening in time to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Kennedy’s death on Nov. 22.