MoMA One on One

Andy Warhol

Campbell’s Soup Cans

Starr Figura In 1962, when he painted Campbell’s Soup Cans, Andy Warhol was not yet a household name, and Pop art, the movement with which he is now identi ed, was still on the cusp of becoming a phenomenon. With the Soup Cans — thirty-two nearly identical canvases, each one featuring a di erent variety of Campbell’s soup — Warhol hit upon a combination of subject, style, and strategy that he would carry forward as his trademark. MoMA Curator Starr Figura examines the ways in which the Soup Cans mark a pivotal moment in the artist’s career, and Warhol’s profound impact on art-making.

35 illustrations 23 x 18.5cm 48pp Paperback ISBN 978 1 633 451360 Museum of Modern Art October £14.95

Georgia O’Kee e

Abstraction Blue

Samantha Friedman During the 1920s, Georgia O’Kee e became widely-known for her paintings of enlarged owers, and these canvases arguably remain her most iconic today. But she regularly returned to abstraction—the language of her breakthrough drawings from the 1910s. Executed in 1927, Abstraction Blue retains the glowing color, careful modulation, and zoomed-in view of the artist’s contemporaneous blooms, while foregoing any obligation toward representation. MoMA curator Samantha Friedman considers how these and other factors converged in the creation of this composition.

35 illustrations 23 x 18.5cm 48pp Paperback ISBN 978 1 633 451346 Museum of Modern Art October £14.95