Cow
Cow is a motif elaborated for a wallpaper that Warhol used for the first time at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1966. The show included two rooms. The first was filled with "silver clouds" which were in fact helium balloons, and the second was one entirely covered with cow wallpaper.
That subject was recommended to Warhol by Ivan Karp, who collected paintings of cows. Warhol's assistant, Gerard Melanga, found the picture of the Jersey cow in an agricultural magazine, which served as the model for "Cow." Treated with abrasive colors, the wallpaper can be seen as the artist's attempt to explore unconventional formats. Although Warhol was still publicly proclaiming his retirement from painting, he continued to silkscreen print many of his canvases. Warhol produced another version of the wallpaper in 1971 using a deep blue instead of the acid yellow as a background.
Andy Warhol
American, 1928 - 1987
Gift of the Meisel Gallery, New York
1966
silkscreen on wallpaper
print
Pour Les Levres (For the Lips)
Allen Jones
English, b. 1937
Gift of Bill Martella
Original Editions
1965
screenprint
36 x 31 inches
print
Temple
Roy Lichtenstein
American, 1923 - 1997
Gift of Helen Caldwell
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1964
offset lithograph
23 x 17 inches
print
Chic
Mel Ramos
American, 1935 - 2018
Gift of Bill Martella
Original Editions
1966
screenprint
24 x 20 inches
print
Foot and Hand
Roy Lichtenstein
American, 1923 - 1997
Gift of Helen Caldwell
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1964
offset lithograph
print
Untitled, from Fertility Suite, plate 5
Keith Haring
American, 1958 - 1990
Ewing Gallery purchase
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1983
screenprint on BFK rives
42 x 50 inches
print