Teddy Roosevelt
from Cowboys and Indians

Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1986
Sheet: 36×36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Edition: 250
Artist’s Proofs: 50 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 15 PP
Hors Commerce: 15 HC
Other: 10 numbered in Roman numerals
Trial Proofs: 36 TP in unique color combination
(see Feldmann & Schellmann IIB.386)
Publisher: Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., New York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldmann & Schellmann II.386

All signed and numbered in pencil lower right
With the publisher’s blindstamp and the artist’s copyright inkstamp on the reverse

Teddy Roosevelt is part of Cowboys and Indians
(Click on picture below to access the Catalogue entry)

The final work in Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians draws from an 1898 portrait of then Colonel Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American War. After making headlines leading the ‘Rough Riders’ in Cuba, upon his return, Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York. In 1900, he was elected vice president on a ticket with incumbent William McKinley. And mere months later, following McKinley’s assassination, Roosevelt was sworn in as president of the United States.

Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by George Gardner Rockwood, 1898
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Over the course of his breakneck rise to power, Roosevelt leveraged his public persona as a war hero, frontiersman, and naturalist to great political expedience. Warhol’s Teddy Roosevelt captures the figure just before his rapid political ascension, playing off the role that first garnered him national attention. Depicting Roosevelt’s face in inverted tones, Warhol calls attention to the idea, like the film negative, that this image is fundamental—that the colonel underlies the president. Often overlooked in discussions of Warhols presidential portraits, Warhol’s Teddy Roosevelt offers not only another stylized portrait, but a serious look at the conditions and myth of producing presidents. Teddy Roosevelt’s inclusion in Cowboys and Indians suggests the concrete, political results of America’s fascination with the west—a fascination that took him all the way to the White House

Auction Market Overview

Regular Editions

Rago: 15 October 2025
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 88,900

Lone Star Art Auction: 12 October 2024
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 90,000
USD 96,000

ANDY WARHOL (1927-1987)
Teddy Roosevelt (FS II.386), 1986
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed lower right: Andy Warhol 70/250

Coeur d’Alene Art Auction: 27 July 2024
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 229,900
AUCTION RECORD FOR TEDDY ROOSEVELT

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Teddy Roosevelt (1986)
Screenprint on board
Signed and numbered 236/250 lower right

Grogan & Company: 6 May 2023
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 62,500

ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Teddy Roosevelt, from Cowboys and Indians (F&S II.386), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed Andy Warhol lower right and numbered 44/250 lower left
With publishers blind stamp lower left and stamp verso

Hindman: 29 September 2022
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 40,000
USD 75,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928–1987)
Teddy Roosevelt (from Cowboys and Indians), 1986
Screen-print on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered 71/250 in pencil

Bonhams New-York: 26 May 2021
Estimated: USD 22,000 – 28,000
USD 56,562

Trial Proofs

Teddy Roosevelt (TP 8/36), 1986

Heritage Auctions: 19 April 2022
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 131,250
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Teddy Roosevelt (F. & S. II.386), from Cowboys and Indians, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and inscribed ‘TP 27/36’
A unique color trial proof, aside from the numbered edition of 250