Marilyn, Marilyn is one of fifteen paintings by Robert Indiana that takes the actress Marilyn Monroe as its subject. Indiana painted his first Monroe themed work, The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortensen, in 1967. He returned to the subject over thirty years later, inspired by the many books published around the thirty-fifth anniversary of the actress’s death, the death of Joe DiMaggio, and President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, he completed The Black Marilyn, which he had begun in 1967, and then went on to paint an additional thirteen canvases in 1999 and 2000.
