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Andy Warhol Prints comes to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 06:06

Andy Warhol - 'Ambulance Disaster' (1963-1964) The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.


Memphis,TN - The Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) will open at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on June 14, 2008.  The exhibition provides an overview of the artist’s career through the prints he created from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Prints of Andy Warhol  is one of a number of worldwide events dedicated to Warhol throughout 2007-2008 to mark the 20th anniversary of the artist’s death in New York in 1987.

Organized by Margery King, associate curator at The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this exhibition has continuously opened to rave reviews and has meant record-breaking attendance at the host museums and galleries all over the world.  "Warhol's prints are fantastic," says King. "They aren't necessarily seen in the original as often as the paintings and they really need to be seen in person to appreciate their beauty."

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Ingrid Bergman: With Hat, 1983 Screen print on Lenox Museum Board 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm.) The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.Among the 63 prints and 5 paintings included in this exhibition are some of Warhol's most famous works – Jackie Kennedy, Campbell's Soup Cans, Mao, and Flowers – as well as some of his lesser-known works, such as the Hammer and Sickle series, and prints based on Italian Renaissance masters. The title for the exhibition is a play on Warhol's 1975 book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).

Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) is one of the seminal artists of the twentieth century. The recent sale of his 1963 painting Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) from his Death and Disaster series set a new record for the artist at auction when it was sold for $71.7 million at Christies in New York on 16 May 2007. The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is loaning the print Ambulance Disaster from the same series for the Brooks exhibition.

This exhibition has been organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. The Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) is on view from June 14 to September 7, 2008. For more information on this exhibition, please visit www.brooksmuseum.org.


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