New & Notable Additions to the AAPG Library

The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections:

Powerup Power Up: Female Pop Art. Angela Stief. Wien : Kunsthalle ; Cologne : DuMont Buchverlag, c2010.
Contents: Female pop art- an introduction/Gerald Matt – Power up – back to the future/ Angela Steif – Other(s’) pop: the return of the repressed of two discourses / Kalliopi Minioudaki – Anke Kempkes on Evelyne Axell – Martin Walker on Niki de Saint Phalle – Belinda Grace Gardner on Christa Dichgans – Sid Sachs on Rosalyn Drexler – Aaron Rose on Sister Corita – Thomas Miessgang on Kiki Kogelnik – Mark Rappolt on Jann Hanworth – Thomas Miesggag on Dorothy Iannonne – Belinda Grace Gardner on Marisol – Appendix.

Subject: Axell, Evelyne, 1935-1972 – Exhibitions –Corita, 1918 – 1986 –Exhibitions –Dichgans, Christa, 1940 –Exhibitions — Drexler, Rosalyn –Exhibitions –Haworth, Jann –Exhibitions –Kogelnik, Kiki – Exhibitions –Marisol, 1930 –Exhibitions –Saint- Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002 –Exhibitions — Pop art –Exhibitions — Women artists –20th century — Women artists –Catalogs –Feminism in art –Feminism and art. N6494.P6 S75 2010.

Lafarge John La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891. Elizabeth Hodermarsky. Yale University Press, c2010.
Contents: A second paradise: John La Farge’s search for the sublime in the twilight of the American landscape movement / Elizabeth Hodermarsky – Exoticisms in the South Seas: John La Farge and Henry Adams encounter the Pacific / Elizabeth C. Childs – John La Farge’s South Seas sketchbooks: their nature and their significance / Henry Adams – Common ground: John La Farge and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti / Elizabeth C. Childs – Paradise remembered: the late windows of John La Farge / John Stuart Gordon.

Subject: La Garge, John, 1835 – 1920 – Exhibitions – - La Farge, John 1835-1920 – - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. –Exhibitions – - La Farge, John 1835-1910 –Travel –Oceania –Exhibitions – - Oceania –In art –Exhibitions. N40.1.L15 Y3 2010.

Warhol Andy Warhol Making Money. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987. Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., c2010.
Contents: None.
Subject: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 – - Money in art – - Artists’ books. N40.1.W27 M33x 2010.

 

 

 

 

Roosevelt She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker. Brigid O’Farrell. Cornell University Press, c2010.
Contents: Why women should join unions – - Here comes Mrs. Roosevelt – - Practicing what you preach – - In her own way – - An essential element of freedom – - Pointing the way – - We have something to offer – - A revolutionary period – - Close to home.
Subject: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 – - Working class –United States –History –20th century – - Labor movement –United States –History –20th century – - Women in the labor movement –United States –History –20th century. CT275.R771 O3 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

Medicis America’s Medicis: the Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy. Suzanne Lobel. HarperCollins Publishers, c2010.
Contents: Preamble: an Imperial nest –To the glory of God –A passion for Asia –Bridging the past and the present: The Oriental Institute, the Cairo Museum, the Metropolitan Museum’s Assyrian sculptures, and the Rockefeller Archaeological museum, Jerusalem –Rockefeller Center –Mother’s museum: MoMA, 1929-39 –The Cloisters –Colonial Williamsburg and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of American Fold Art –MoMA  under Nelson A. Rockefeller’s stewardship, 1939-69 –A modest man assumes his birthright: the Asia Society and Lincoln Center –The Rockefeller Collection at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco – The Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Mall –David Rockefeller: the Museum of Modern Art and the JPMorgan-Chase Corporate Art Collection –In memoriam: the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center in San Antonio, Texas –Smaller gifts –Kykuit: on a clear day you can see forever.
Subject: Rockefeller family –art collections – - Rockefeller family –Art patronage – - Art patrons –United States – - Philanthropists –United States. CT275.R676 L6 2010.

 

Schneemann Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Carolee Schneemann, 1939-, Duke University Press, c2010.
Contents:  Introduction –The Letters 1956/1968 – 1969/1975 – 1976/1986 – 1987/1999.
Subject: Schneemann, Carolee, 1939 –Correspondence – - Artists –United States –Correspondence. N40.1.S36773 C6 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swain Visual Sensations The Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967 – 2010. New York : Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, c2010.
Contents: Visual sensations/ by Gabriele Evertz – Artist statement/ by Robert  Swain – Color as content: Robert Swain and American art / by William C. Agee – Color Plates – Interview with Robert Swain / by Matthew Deleget.
Subject: Swain, Robert, 1940 –Exhibitions – - Swain, Robert, 1940 –Interviews – - Art –Psychology –Exhibitions. N40.1.S97 T5 2010.

 

 

 

 

—Doug Litts

Power Up: female pop art. Angela Stief. Wien : Kunsthalle ; Cologne : DuMont Buchverlag, c2010.

Contents: Female pop art- an introduction/Gerald Matt – Power up – back to the future/ Angela Steif – Other(s’) pop: the return of the repressed of two discourses / Kalliopi Minioudaki – Anke Kempkes on Evelyne Axell – Martin Walker on Niki de Saint Phalle – Belinda Grace Gardner on Christa Dichgans – Sid Sachs on Rosalyn Drexler – Aaron Rose on Sister Corita – Thomas Miessgang on Kiki Kogelnik – Mark Rappolt on Jann Hanworth – Thomas Miesggag on Dorothy Iannonne – Belinda Grace Gardner on Marisol – Appendix.

 

Subject: Axell, Evelyne, 1935-1972 – Exhibitions –Corita, 1918 – 1986 –Exhibitions –Dichgans, Christa, 1940 –Exhibitions — Drexler, Rosalyn –Exhibitions –Haworth, Jann –Exhibitions –Kogelnik, Kiki – Exhibitions –Marisol, 1930 –Exhibitions –Saint- Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002 –Exhibitions — Pop art –Exhibitions — Women artists –20th century — Women artists –Catalogs –Feminism in art –Feminism and art. N6494.P6 S75 2010.

Warhol’s 32 Soup Flavors

AndyWarhol-AAAsource-screenshot It was July 9, 1962, when Andy Warhol's exhibit, Campbell's Soup Cans, opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. This was Warhol's first solo exhibition of pop art. Campbell Soup Cans comprised 32 separate canvases, each depicting a different soup flavor.

Ferus Gallery, under the directorship of Irving Blum, was the first to exhibit contemporary American art in the Los Angeles area. Blum visited Warhol in his art studio. From the Oral history interview with Irving Blum, 1977 May 31-June 23, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution:

" . . . He had started on the Campbell’s soup cans. I saw them as I walked into his little house on Lexington Avenue where he was living at that time. As I walked through the foyer, I could see lots of these soup can paintings leaning against the wall . . . I said, “I think they’re terrific, Andy. Would you think about selling them in my gallery?” He said oh, he’d be thrilled, that he had no gallery at that time, had absolutely no commitment then. And I agreed right then and there to show the series . . . 16 x 20 inch pictures of soup cans . . . I remember ringing the gallery with 32 of these paintings, looking at them. Having sold five or six of them, I decided after I was into the exhibition some two weeks, that the series was just incredibly compelling and really intriguing, and really fascinating as a group. And I called Andy up and I said, “I’ll tell you what I think. I think the paintings should stay together as a series, in toto. If I can manage that. I’ve sold five or six but I going to try and get them back." . . . He said they were conceived as a series and that’s really the way he thought of them; as a group . . . So I called the six people and explained exactly what had occurred . . . And everyone said they would give up their painting. They were very generous. And I called Andy up and said, “I’ve got them together, I’d like to keep them.” Andy said, “Fine.” . . . The audience was minuscule – it began as an audience composed mainly of artists. And it filtered up very slowly from that."

The set is currently at the Museum of Modern Art

And you might want to check out monographs about this work from our collection:

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987. Andy Warhol : Campbell's soup boxes. Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac; New York, NY: Available in the USA through Distributed Art Publishers, 2000. Catalog for the exhibition at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Oct. 14-Nov. 10, 2000. 

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987. Warhol Campbell's Soup boxes. Michael Kohn Gallery in cooperation with Martin Lawrence Limted Editions. Van Nuys, Calif.: Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, c1986.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has a page on Andy Warhol.

Image: [detail] Andy Warhol, 1969 / Dena, photographer. Photographic print : 1 item : silver gelatin ; 21 x 25 cm. [Photographs of artists taken by Dena], [1964-1975]. Source: Archives of American Art.