Untitled, from the portfolio “Campbell’s Soup II”
- Publisher
- Factory Additions, New York, New York
- Date
- 1969
- Material
- Screenprint
- printed in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- published in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 35 × 23 in. (88.9 × 58.4 cm)
sheet: 35 × 23 in. (88.9 × 58.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Greenberg
- Rights
- © 2017 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 166:1971.1
NOTES
Andy Warhol spent the 1950s building a career in advertising, but when his name became associated with Campbell’s soup in 1962, it was for a different reason. In that year, he exhibited 32 paintings in a Los Angeles art gallery, each depicting a Campbell’s soup can on a neutral white background. The familiar red, black, and white labels were already in everyone’s kitchen cupboards—and apparently Warhol ate the soup daily.
Those first soup cans were painted by hand. Very soon afterward, however, Warhol began to create his paintings using the screenprint technique, which was widespread in the advertising world. Screenprinting provided him with a “mechanical” method to create seemingly endless numbers of nearly identical paintings. Ever the entrepreneur, in the late 1960s Warhol also began publishing professionally-produced editions of screenprints on paper, including this portfolio.
Those first soup cans were painted by hand. Very soon afterward, however, Warhol began to create his paintings using the screenprint technique, which was widespread in the advertising world. Screenprinting provided him with a “mechanical” method to create seemingly endless numbers of nearly identical paintings. Ever the entrepreneur, in the late 1960s Warhol also began publishing professionally-produced editions of screenprints on paper, including this portfolio.
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