The Prints of Andy Warhol
http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/museum/exhibits/exhibitions/andy_warhol.php
More than 60 pop prints and four paintings are the focus of an exciting exhibition in The Museum's temporary galleries. Iconic works by one of the leading figures in twentieth-century art include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Mao Tse-Tung, Mick Jagger, Ronald Reagan, and Judy Garland, along with the artist's famous Soup Cans and Camouflage prints. The exhibition provides an outstanding overview of Warhol's career as a printmaker. The photographic silk screens date from the early 1960s to the late 1980s and come to The Museum from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol rose to prominence in the late fifties and early sixties as part of the Pop Art movement which drew its subjects — comics, advertisements, headlines, Hollywood stars, and politicians — from popular culture. Warhol had worked as a commercial artist in New York for more than a decade before his paintings of Soup Cans brought him to national prominence in the art world in 1962. From that time until his death in 1987, the artist continually selected subjects that wielded a powerful impact on his audience. The exhibition was organized by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is underwritten by the Marlin and Ginger Miller Exhibition Endowment. The Reading Public Museum is supported in part by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
- Contact:
- Michael D. Anderson
- michael.anderson@readingpublicmuseum.org
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