Vegetarian Vegetable
1969
35 x 23 1/16 in. (88.9 x 58.6 cm)
Andy Warhol
United States
(Pittsburgh, PA, 1928 - 1987, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color serigraph
Credit Line:
Gift of Ron Kransler in memory of his father John H. Kransler
Accession Number:
2000.38
Location: Not currently on view
Artists Proofs:
26
Printer:
Salvatore Silkscreen Co, Inc., NYC
Publisher:
Factory Additions, New York
Portfolio:
Campbell's Soup II
Gallery label text 2012:
By choosing a common consumer item like a soup can as his subject and using commercial techniques to print it repeatedly, Andy Warhol forever altered the modern concept of art and value. His first Campbell’s Soup cans, painted and exhibited in 1962, consisted of 32 canvases, each one a variety of soup then produced by Campbell’s. They were displayed in a gallery on wall-mounted shelves to mimic their appearance in a grocery store. Over the next 20 years, Warhol repeatedly revisited the subject. In 1969, he made Vegetarian Vegetable as part of his Campbell’s Soup II portfolio. Below are three other prints from the portfolio of ten: