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Reading Marilyn Q&ALast night at Iconic Images Gallery, as part of our ongoing Marilyn Monroe centenary celebration, we ...
05/06/2026

Reading Marilyn Q&A

Last night at Iconic Images Gallery, as part of our ongoing Marilyn Monroe centenary celebration, we hosted a panel discussion about Marilyn in book form. Three incredible authors discussed their research, motivation and findings in a fascinating panel discussion.

Among the many topics covered: Andrew Wilson, author of the recent biography I Want to be Loved by You, enlightened us with his intense research process, including unprecedented access to the Anthony Summers archives; Lynn Cullen, who has written a novel about the friendship between photographer Eve Arnold and Marilyn, discussed imagination and the thrill of getting the voice right; and Gail Crowther, author of Marilyn’s Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe, discussed how photography played an important role in revealing the contents of Marilyn’s bookshelf.

All three books are available at the Iconic Images Gallery, signed by the authors! Stop by to pick up your copy and view the show, Marilyn Monroe: Icon, on from now until 4 July.

Marilyn Monroe: Icon PreviewIconic Images Gallery in Piccadilly celebrated the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe last nig...
04/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe: Icon Preview

Iconic Images Gallery in Piccadilly celebrated the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe last night with a fantastic evening filled with friends, family, writers, artists and – of course – photographers. London-based artist San B joined iconic Texan Pop Artist James Frances Gill; Melissa Stevens, granddaughter of Sam Shaw; and Michael Arnold, grandson of Eve Arnold, in raising to Monroe a delicious signature cocktail provided by the great team at Daisy Green.

The evening launched Marilyn Monroe: Icon, an exhibition of classic photographs from Allan Grant, Eve Arnold and Sam Shaw; contemporary pieces from Kevin Cummins, James Francis Gill, San B and Bambi; and illustrations from David Downton and Risko.

The exhibition will be on display and free to view from June 5 until July 4.

Visitors can also browse a large selection of books, including the official centenary book, Marilyn Monroe 100, which is available both at the gallery or on our online store.

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04/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe: Icon

In celebration of Marilyn Monroe’s Centenary, Iconic Images Gallery in London’s Piccadilly are proudly presenting an exhibition of classic photographs from Allan Grant, Eve Arnold and Sam Shaw; contemporary pieces from Kevin Cummins, James Francis Gill, San B and Bambi; and illustrations from David Downton and Risko.

Visitors can also browse a large selection of books, including the official centenary book, Marilyn Monroe 100, which is available both at the gallery or on our online store.

The exhibition is on display at 16 Waterloo Place, London, SW1Y 4AR and is free to view from June 5 until July 4.

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04/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe: Icon

Is now open!

We hope you can join us at Iconic Images Gallery Piccadilly in celebration of Marilyn Monroe’s 100th Birthday.

Marilyn Monroe: Icon Featuring Eve ArnoldFeatured in Iconic Images Gallery’s new show, Marilyn Monroe: Icon, celebrating...
04/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe: Icon Featuring Eve Arnold

Featured in Iconic Images Gallery’s new show, Marilyn Monroe: Icon, celebrating the centenary of Marilyn Monroe are works by Eve Arnold.

One of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century, American photojournalist Eve Arnold was recognised for her ability to capture both the complexities of fame and the dignity of ordinary lives with equal sensitivity. Born in Philadelphia to Russian-immigrant parents, she became the first woman to join the Magnum Photos agency in 1951, producing an expansive body of work that ranged from political leaders and migrant workers to some of the defining cultural figures of the post-war era. Her photographs were shaped by a distinctly humanist approach. “I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary,” she once remarked. “I see them simply as people in front of my lens.”

Among Arnold’s most celebrated works are the photographs she made of Marilyn Monroe over the course of a decade. Their relationship began in 1954, when Monroe, having seen Arnold’s natural and unretouched photographs of Marlene Dietrich, reportedly told the photographer at a party: “If you could do that with her, just imagine what you could do with me.” What followed was an unusually close and trusting collaboration that produced some of the most candid and psychologically revealing images of Monroe ever taken.

At a time when Monroe’s public image was carefully managed by Hollywood studios, Arnold approached her subject with unusual intimacy and empathy. She sought not simply to photograph the actress as a star, but to reveal the person beneath the persona. Monroe, in turn, recognised Arnold as both confidante and collaborator. Arnold later recalled Monroe’s remarkable command of the photographic process, describing how she “manipulated everything – me, the camera”, and maintained that no one else possessed such instinctive understanding of image-making.

📆 Show runs from June 4 - July 4
🏛️ Iconic Images Gallery, 16 Waterloo Place, St James’s, London, SW1Y 4AR
🔗 View the full collection at the link in our bio

📸 by Eve Arnold / Iconic Images

James Francis GillMarilyn Triptych III by James Francis GillJames Francis Gill is an American artist associated with the...
03/06/2026

James Francis Gill

Marilyn Triptych III by James Francis Gill

James Francis Gill is an American artist associated with the early development of Pop Art in the 1960s. Born in Texas in 1934, Gill emerged at a moment when artists were examining the implications of mass media and celebrity with a new critical force. Working from photographic source material, Gill’s paintings reimagine the totems of twentieth-century popular culture – such as John Lennon, John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe – in a style that “removes the masks of public figures, revealing their blurred anonymity with a powerful impulse on our consciousness.”*

In 1962, shortly after Marilyn Monroe’s death, Gill created Marilyn, a three-panel oil painting of Monroe that in 1963 entered the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where it remains listed in MoMA’s Department of Painting and Sculpture. Its acceptance into MoMA’s collection marked a significant moment in Gill’s career and placed his response to Monroe within one of the defining cultural conversations of the 1960s.

Throughout his career, Gill has continued to return to Monroe as a subject, exploring her image as both icon and construction. The silkscreen works displayed here comprise Marilyn Triptych III, a continuation of Gill’s Marilyn series, based on photographs taken in July of 1962 by Allan Grant, whose work also features in this exhibition.

Grant’s shoot captured Monroe in a range of emotional states, from pensive to insouciant. Gill’s selection for Marilyn Triptych III – an enigmatic Monroe in the central panel, flanked by images of her smiling freely and consumed by laughter – is made poignant and unsettling by the context of the sitting, which took place only weeks before her death.

*Henry J. Seldis, art editor of the Los Angeles Times, 1965.

📆 Show runs from June 4 - July 4
🏛️ Iconic Images Gallery, 16 Waterloo Place, St James’s, London, SW1Y 4AR
🔗 View the full collection at the link in our bio

Marilyn Monroe™, Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights are used with permission of The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC

🖼️ by James Francis Gill / Iconic Images

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Marilyn Monroe 100Marilyn Monroe 100 – the official centenary book – is now available to order from our gallery store. P...
03/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe 100

Marilyn Monroe 100 – the official centenary book – is now available to order from our gallery store.

Published in association with the Marilyn Monroe Estate, this stunning book brings together specially curated selections of work by 17 renowned photographers who collaborated with Monroe during her lifetime, including some of the greatest names in the art of photography, including Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Eve Arnold, Milton Greene and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The stunning and comprehensive curation of images – reproduced in the highest quality – are accompanied by stories behind the collaborations, as well as quotes from Marilyn and essays by writers including Rachel Syme, contributor to the New Yorker.

Marilyn Monroe™, Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights are used with permission of The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC

📸 by ACC Art Books

‘View shop’ to purchase, visit: iconicimagesgallery.com or contact [email protected]

Marilyn Monroe: Immortal by San BFeatured in Iconic Images Gallery’s new show, Marilyn Monroe: Icon, celebrating the cen...
03/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe: Immortal by San B

Featured in Iconic Images Gallery’s new show, Marilyn Monroe: Icon, celebrating the centenary of Marilyn Monroe, is this stunning piece, ‘Marilyn Monroe: Immortal’ by San B.

Constructed over more than 1,000 hours and comprising in excess of 150,000 individually placed Swarovski® crystals, this one-of-one work takes as its inspiration from the cover image of the official centenary book Marilyn Monroe 100.

The piece extends Sikh, London-based artist San B’s exploration of portraiture, materiality and cultural memory. Crystals of varying tones and intensities are layered across the surface to produce a shifting optical field in which Monroe’s image scintillates and flickers. The unembellished black ground surrounding the figure functions as a counterpoint to the brilliance of the crystalline figure.

The artist explains: “The uncrystallised black void illustrates Norma Jeane’s private emotional fragility and the psychological toll of her intoxicating fame, while the intense Swarovski® diamonds set in the subject’s eyes symbolize her dazzling public persona: captivating innocence, brilliance under pressure and timeless glamour. I’ve strived to create a culturally significant, spiritual piece of living art for this milestone anniversary, with the intricate crystal mosaic drawing in the beholder and reflecting the enduring fascination with Monroe’s image. This work has ignited my interest in the process through which a human transcends biography and enters permanence: when image becomes structure and likeness gives way to presence, completing the passage to immortality.”

📆 Show runs from June 4 - July 4
🏛️ Iconic Images Gallery, 16 Waterloo Place, St James’s, London, SW1Y 4AR
🔗 View the full Marilyn Monroe: Icon collection at the link in our bio.

Marilyn Monroe™, Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights are used with permission of The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC

🖼️ by San B

‘View shop’ to purchase, visit iconicimagesgallery.com, visit links in our bio or contact: [email protected]

01/06/2026

Marilyn Monroe: Icon

On the centenary of her birth, Iconic Images Gallery presents an exhibition of photography and original artwork inspired by Monroe’s life, image and enduring cultural legacy.

Displaying editions from photographers who knew her intimately alongside work from contemporary illustrators and mixed media artists, Marilyn Monroe: Icon is a testament to the continuing influence of one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable figures.

A collection of Marilyn imagery – including works from Allan Grant, David Downton, Sam Shaw, Risko, San B, Eve Arnold, and Douglas Kirkland – is now available to view on our gallery store.

🔗 View the full collection at the link in our bio.

📸 by Douglas Kirkland, Eve Arnold, Sam Shaw, Allan Grant, San B, Risko, David Downton / Iconic Images

‘View shop’ to purchase, visit iconicimagesgallery.com, visit links in our bio or contact: [email protected]

License photography from the archive: iconiclicensing.net

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100 Years of Marilyn MonroeAs perhaps the most influential visual icon of the twentieth century, Marilyn Monroe is essen...
01/06/2026

100 Years of Marilyn Monroe

As perhaps the most influential visual icon of the twentieth century, Marilyn Monroe is essential to the Iconic Images Archive, with photographs by a distinguished selection of photographers – including Milton H. Greene, Eve Arnold and Douglas Kirkland – tracing the dramatic arc of her life and the many identities she inhabited, from the ambitious young actress to the self-aware intellectual. She continues to inspire contemporary artists such as Risko, and, a century after her birth, her image remains one of the defining obsessions of modern culture.

📸 by Douglas Kirkland, Eve Arnold, Milton H. Greene, Risko / Iconic Images

‘View shop’ to purchase, visit iconicimagesgallery.com, visit links in our bio or contact: [email protected]

License photography from the archive: iconiclicensing.net

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