The Prints of Andy Warhol at the Reading Public Museum March 3 - June 17, 2012
More than 60 pop prints and four paintings are the focus of an exciting exhibition in The Museum's second floor 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.
This 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.
In addition to the prints and paintings, this special "expanded" exhibition will feature two more engaging aspects of Warhol's career - in one gallery, an installation of "Silver Clouds" which recreates a 1966 exhibition that the artist mounted at the Leo Castilli Gallery in New York City consisting of large, free-floating Mylar® pillow-shaped balloons, and in another, a continuous screening of a dozen of Warhol's famous "Screen Tests." Some of these highlight well-known figures such as Dennis Hopper, Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, and Marcel Duchamp.
The exhibition was organized by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is underwritten by the Marlin and Ginger Miller Exhibition Endowment, and supported in part by Clermont Wealth Strategies at Fulton Bank.
The Reading Public Museum is supported in part by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Image:
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, ca.1967, screenprint on ivory paper. Image © 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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