Why it matters
Warhol painted 32 canvases, each showing a different variety of Campbell's soup in the same 20-by-16-inch format. First shown in Los Angeles in 1962, they challenged the line between fine art and commercial imagery, made him famous and became a canonical symbol of Pop Art.
Did you know?
- They were painted in 1961–1962.
- They were first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in July 1962.
- The art dealer Irving Blum kept the set together; MoMA acquired it in 1996.
- Warhol had worked as a commercial illustrator.
Based on the Wikipedia article Campbell's Soup Cans (CC BY-SA 4.0).
