FAMOUS FACES | Exhibition Catalogue

FAMOUS FACES

Jean Michel Basquiat

Crash Dick Tracy

Richard Hambleton

Sunday B Morning Marilyn Monroe

Kenji Nakayama Albert Einstein

Andy Warhol Georgia O’Keeffe · Pablo Picasso

FAMOUS FACES

September - November, 2023

FAMOUS FACES

Undoubtedly, Autumn is the best time to reflect upon the past. As we look back this Fall season, Woodward Gallery’s latest exhibition, Famous Faces , features the portraits of iconic individuals who influenced American culture. On display are the memorable countenances of Marilyn Monroe, Jean- Michel Basquiat, Dick Tracy, Richard Hambleton, Albert Einstein, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Pablo Picasso, which honor the unmatched creativity of both the subjects of each work of art and the talented artists who depict them.

Jean Michel Basquiat

Crash

Dick Tracy

Richard Hambleton

Sunday B Morning

Marilyn Monroe

Kenji Nakayama

Albert Einstein

Andy Warhol

Georgia O’Keeffe

Pablo Picasso

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

Exhibition Announcement at Vrej Baghoomian Gallery , 1988

Offset lithograph on paper

28.75 x 21 in; 73.0 x 53.3 cm

32 x 24.5 in; 81.3 x 62.2 cm (framed)

Custom framed with Museum Optium Tru-Vue Invisible Acrylic

Signed and annotated “Richard” in black marker center left

This was the very last poster created for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s final exhibition, closing just two months before his premature death at age 27. The rare offset lithograph print is signed by the artist and annotated to his friend, Richard (Hambleton).

CRASH

Dick Tracy II , 1988

Watercolor and enamel on paper

42.5 x 29.5 in; 108 x 74.9 cm

46.5 x 35 in; 118.1 x 88.9 cm (vintage frame)

Signed CRASH ‘88 lower left

Recalling his time working predominantly as a graffiti artist on the streets and subway trains of New York City in the 60s and 70s, Crash’s Dick Tracy II reflects an influential period in street art that wove American pop culture icons into the urban landscape.

Dick Tracy, the detective protagonist from an American comic book of the same name, was also a visage prevalent in pop art, appearing in works by Warhol in the 1960s.

RICHARD HAMBLETON

R. Hambleton Investigation Department June 27 – July 12 Flavio Belli Gallery Announcement , 1981

Offset lithograph on paper 26.75 x 16.75 in; 67.9 x 42.5 cm

Limited Signed Edition 20/25

Signed and numbered blue pen lower right

This offset lithograph was published as the announcement for Richard Hambleton’s exhibition at Flavio Belli Gallery, in 1981. There were only 25 posters made into a limited, signed, and numbered edition by Hambleton.

SUNDAY B MORNING

Marilyn 23 , 1990s edition

Silkscreen on paper 36 x 36 in; 91.4 x 91.4 cm

Stamped “Published by Sunday B Morning” lower right on verso

Stamped “Fill In Your Own Signature” lower left on verso

Following Andy Warhol’s famous “Factory Editions” of Marilyn, Flowers, and the Campbell’s Soup Cans, he started collaborating with two friends from Belgium in 1970. This partnership played on the notion of mass production; Marilyn was mass produced with little regard to attribution. These Sunday B. Morning editions mocked the perceived greator importance of the Factory Edition prints.

SUNDAY B MORNING

Marilyn 31 , 1990s edition

Silkscreen on paper

36 x 36 in; 91.4 x 91.4 cm

Stamped “Published by Sunday B Morning” lower right on verso

Stamped “Fill In Your Own Signature” lower left on verso

KENJI NAKAYAMA

Einstein , 2007

Spray paint with multi-layer stencils on Arches paper

30 x 22.5 in; 76.2 x 57.2 cm

33 x 25.5 in; 83.8 x 64.8 cm (framed)

Nakayama spray paints over hand-cut, multilayer stencils to create unique images. Einstein specialized in studying concepts that influence the world around us, yet, are invisible to the naked eye. Nakayama’s portrait of Einstein appears invisible to many at first, emerging on closer look, reflecting the nature of Einstein’s life-long work.

ANDY WARHOL

Georgia O’Keeffe , 1979

Unique screenprint with diamond dust on Arches Cover black paper 44.4 x 30 in; 112.8 x 76.2 cm 52 x 38 in; 132.1 x 96.5 cm (framed)

Authenticated

The long-awaited meeting of Andy Warhol with Georgia O’Keeffe came after each established themselves among the most influential American artists of the 20th century. Warhol memorialized that historic visit with a then 92-year-old O’Keeffe with rare silkscreen portraits enhanced with diamond dust. This coral color harkens to O’Keeffe’s home studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, now The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

ANDY WARHOL

After Picasso , 1985

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas 50 × 50 in; 127 × 127 cm

Authenticated

Warhol believed that Picasso was the preeminent artist of the 20th century and reproduced the head of Picasso in a unique series of canvases. This painting’s use of primary colors distinguishes the work from others of the series, rendered in a moremuted palette. This body of work was originally exhibited in a 1997 Thaddeus Ropac Gallery exhibition titled Andy Warhol | Heads (After Picasso) .

EXHIBITION LIST

Jean Michel Basquiat

Exhibition Announcement at Vrej

Baghoomian Gallery, 1988

Offset lithograph on paper

28.75 x 21 in; 73.0 x 53.3 cm

32 x 24.5 in; 81.3 x 62.2 cm (framed)

Custom framed with Museum Optium TruVue Invisible Acrylic

Signed, and annotated “Richard” in black marker center left

Crash

Dick Tracy II, 1988

Watercolor and enamel on paper

42.5 x 29.5 in; 108 x 74.9 cm

46.5 x 35 in; 118.1 x 88.9 cm (vintage frame)

Signed CRASH ‘88 lower left

Richard Hambleton

R. Hambleton Investigation Department

June 27 – July 12 Flavio Belli Gallery

Announcement, 1981

Offset lithograph on paper

26.75 x 16.75 in; 67.9 x 42.5 cm

Limited Signed Edition 20/25

Signed and numbered blue pen lower right

Sunday B Morning

Marilyn 23, 1990s edition

Silkscreen on paper

36 x 36 in; 91.4 x 91.4 cm

Stamped “Published by Sunday B Morning”

lower right on verso

Stamped “Fill In Your Own Signature” lower left on verso

Sunday B Morning

Marilyn 31, 1990s edition

Silkscreen on paper

36 x 36 in; 91.4 x 91.4 cm

Stamped “Published by Sunday B Morning” lower right on verso

Stamped “Fill In Your Own Signature” lower left on verso

Kenji Nakayama

Einstein, 2007

Spray paint with multi-layer stencils on Arches paper

30 x 22.5 in; 76.2 x 57.2 cm

33 x 25.5 in; 83.8 x 64.8 cm (framed)

Andy Warhol

Georgia O’Keeffe, 1979

Unique screenprint with diamond dust on Arches Cover black paper

44.4 x 30 in; 112.8 x 76.2 cm

52 x 38 in; 132.1 x 96.5 cm (framed)

Authenticated

Andy Warhol

After Picasso, 1985

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas

50 × 50 in; 127 × 127 cm

Authenticated

established 1994

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