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Title:Ethel Scull 36 Times
Artist:Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
Date:1963
Medium:Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Dimensions:80 in. × 12 ft. (203.2 × 365.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Jointly owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Ethel Redner Scull, 2001
Object Number:2001.614a-jj
Ethel Scull, New York (1963–86; her gift in 1986 to the Whitney Museum of American Art); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1986–2001; from 2001, jointly owned with MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970," October 18, 1969–February 8, 1970, no. 406 (lent by the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull, New York).
Pasadena Art Museum. "Andy Warhol," May 12–June 21, 1970, unnumbered cat. (lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull, New York).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Andy Warhol," July 4–September 6, 1970, unnumbered cat.
London. Tate Gallery. "Warhol," February 17–March 28, 1971, no. 42 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull, New York).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue (unnumbered checklist; lent as Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings and Sculpture," September 18–November 30, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 100).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," February 6–May 2, 1989, no. 325 (lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Fairfield, Conn. Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County. "Image and Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art," March 29–June 5, 1991, unnumbered cat. (p. 15).
Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol Museum. "Warhol Masterpieces," September 2–December 30, 2007.
Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Le Grande Monde d'Andy Warhol," March 16–July 13, 2009, no. 28.
New York. Acquavella Galleries. "Robert and Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection," April 13–May 27, 2010, unnumbered cat. (pp. 268–69).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of Gifts," July 17–October 19, 2014, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection," April 2, 2016–April 2, 2017, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again," November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019, unnumbered cat. (pp. 234–35).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again," May 18–September 2, 2019, unnumbered cat.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again," October 20, 2019–January 26, 2020, unnumbered cat.
Art Gallery of Ontario. "Andy Warhol," July 21–October 24, 2021, unnumbered cat. (pp. 134–35).
"The Art World; No Escape: Looking Back at Andy Warhol." New Yorker, ill. (color in online version only: newyorker.com].
Emily Genauer. "Can This Be Art?" Ladies' Home Journal 81 (March 1964), p. 153, ill. p. 152 (color, installation view in Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull's apartment).
Jane Kramer. "Profiles: Man Who is Happening Now." New Yorker (November 26, 1966), p. 81.
William K. Zinsser. "The Pop Art Collectors." East Village Other 1 (October 15–November 1, 1966), p. 8.
Grace Glueck. "Metropolitan Museum Opens Big Centennial Show." New York Times (October 17, 1969), p. 37.
"Suzy Says: Truly Smashing." Chicago Tribune (October 21, 1969), p. B1, notes that Exh. New York 1969–70 was first time this work publically exhibited.
Barbara Gold. "Metropolitan's Centennial Show." Sun (November 23, 1969), p. D3.
"Suzy Says: 'Twas Smashing." New York Daily News (October 20, 1969), p. 12.
John Coplans. Andy Warhol. [Greenwich, Conn.], [1970], p. 52, ill. p. 96 (color).
Charlotte Curtis. "When Ethel Scull Redecorates, It Is Art News." New York Times (February 27, 1970), p. L33.
Calvin Tomkins in John Coplans. Andy Warhol. [Greenwich, Conn.], [1970], p. 13.
Richard Morphet. Warhol. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1971, pp. 18, 22, no. 42, ill. p. 31 (color).
Calvin Tomkins. "Profiles: Moving with the Flow." New Yorker 47 (November 6, 1971), p. 60.
"Public Museum News." Art Journal 33 (Summer 1974), p. 360.
Henry Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 221, ill.
David Bourdon. "Andy Warhol and the Society Icon." Art in America 63 (January-February 1975), p. 42, ill. p. 44 (version with 35 panels).
Joan Kron. "New York Intelligencer | Scull-Duggery: The Split Goes Public." New York Magazine 8 (January 20, 1975), ill. p. 52 (color, installation view of painting with Mr. and Mrs. Scull).
Baruch D. Kirschenbaum. "The Scull Auction and the Scull Film." Art Journal 39 (Autumn 1979), p. 51.
William S. Lieberman. 20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vol. 1, Painting: 1905–1945. New York, 1986, p. 7.
Patrick S. Smith. Andy Warhol's Art and Films. Ann Arbor, 1986, pp. 190, 577 n. 51, fig. 48.
"Twentieth-Century Works of Art Recently Acquired by Three New York Museums." Burlington Magazine 128 (July 1986), p. 540, fig. 103, lists in the Whitney Museum of American Art collection.
John Duka. "Back on Top With the Mom of Pop Art." New York Magazine 19 (June 9, 1986), p. 64, 65, ill. (color detail of painting with Mrs. Scull and Warhol) and ill. p. 3 (color detail).
Cécile Whiting. "Andy Warhol, the Public Star and the Private Self." Oxford Art Journal 10, no. 2 (1987), pp. 72–73, fig. 9 (detail).
David Bourdon. Warhol. New York, 1989, pp. 158, 160, 306, colorpl. 155.
Kynaston McShine inAndy Warhol: A Retrospective. Ed. Kynaston McShine. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1989, p. 19, colorpl. 325.
Marco Livingstone inAndy Warhol: A Retrospective. Ed. Kynaston McShine. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1989, pp. 72, 78 n. 45.
Michael Brenson. "Looking Back at Warhol, Stars, Super-Heroes and All." New York Times (February 3, 1989), p. C28, calls it "Portrait of Ethel Scull".
Dore Ashton. "Andy Warhol: Pro and Contra—BIinding with Gold Dust." Art International 7 (Summer 1989), ill. p. 70 (color).
Bob Colacello. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. New York, 1990, p. 28.
Hilton Als. "Reviews: Andy Warhol, Robert Miller Gallery." Artforum 28 (March 1990), p. 155.
Vivien Raynor. "In Stamford, Whitney Offers Diversity of Faces and Figures." New York Times (May 5, 1991), p. CN28.
Alice Goldfarb Marquis. The Art Biz: The Covert World of Collectors, Dealers, Auction Houses, Museums, and Critics. Chicago, 1991, p. 174.
Kathleen Monaghan. Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Exh. brochure, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza. New York, 1991, p. 15, ill. p. 3.
Henry Geldzahler inAndy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties. Exh. cat., Anthony d'Offay Gallery. London, 1993, pp. 23, 27, fig. 8 (erroneously listed as fig. 7 in caption list).
Michael Lüthy inAndy Warhol: 1960–1986. Exh. cat., Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, [1996], pp. 30–32, 184–85, 209–10, fig. 5.
Anne M. Wagner. "Warhol Paints History, or Race in America." Representations no. 55 (Summer 1996), pp. 100, 109–10.
Richard Evan Meyer. "Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in American Art, 1934–1992." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1996, pp. 126–28, fig. 82.
Adam D. Weinberg and Beth A. Venn. American Art of the Twentieth Century: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of Art. New York, 1997, ill. pp. 156, 186 (overall and detail, color).
Grace Glueck. "Ethel Scull, a Patron of Pop and Minimal Art, Dies at 79." New York Times (September 1, 2001), p. C15.
Stephen Petersen. "I Am a Camera." Art Journal 60 (Fall 2001), p. 111.
Georg Frei and Neil Printz, ed. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, Paintings and Sculpture 1961–1963. London, 2002, pp. 409–10, 419, no. 460, ill. p. 411 (color).
Jonathan Jones. "Arts: Objects of Desire." Guardian (December 12, 2002), p. 12.
Peter L. Walsh. "The Invisible Screen: Television and American Art." American Art 18 (Summer 2004), p. 9 n. 2.
Nicholas de Villiers. "Unseen Warhol/Seeing Barthes." Paragraph 28 (November 2005), p. 26.
Craig Dworkin. "Whereof One Cannot Speak." Grey Room 21 (Fall 2005), p. 62.
Claire Gilman. "Pistoletto’s Staged Subjects." October 124 (Spring 2008), p. 74.
Johanne Lamoureux. "Ending Myths and the Catholic Outing of Andy Warhol." Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual. Ed. Olivier Asselin, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross. Montreal and Kingston, 2008, p. 114.
Jenny Barchfield. "Paris Exhibit Celebrates Warhol's Portraits." Post Star Glens Falls (March 24, 2009), p. D5, ill. (installation).
Alain Cueff inWarhol: Le Grand Monde d'Andy Warhol. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 2009, pp. 23, 30, 72, 84, 89, 94–95, 140, no. 28, ill. (color) and ill. cover (color).
Carol Vogel. "Two Top Galleries Are One No More, Scull Collection on View." New York Times (April 2, 2010), p. C24, ill.
Louis Menand. "A Critic at Large: Top of the Pops." New Yorker (January 11, 2010), p. 58.
Ann Landi. "The Five-Year Plan: How the Met and the Whitney Came to Share an Iconic Warhol." Art News (Summer 2010), pp. 54–55, ill. (color), discusses the co-owernship of the painting.
Roberta Smith. "Appetite for New and Next New." New York Times (April 16, 2010), p. C25.
Judith Goldman. Robert and Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 2010, pp. 31–33, 49 n. 18, p. 52, no. 41, ill.(color) and ill. pp. 6, 8–9 (color installation).
Hal Foster. "Test Subjects." October 132 (Spring 2010), p. 35.
Judith Goldman. "'My Sculpture in the Desert': Robert Scull and Michael Heizer." Archives of American Art Journal 50 (Spring 2011), p. 63.
Mark Rosenthal inRegarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 71.
Rebecca Lowery inRegarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, p. 255.
Marla Prather inRegarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, p. 184.
Trevor Fairbrother inAndy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2018, pp. 69, 389, ill. pp. 234–35 (color).
Hendrik Folkerts inAndy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2018, p. 97.
Tim Teeman. "The Whitney Museum’s Andy Warhol Show is More Than His Greatest Hits." thedailybeast.com. November 7, 2018.
Katie Oyan. "California Show Explores Warhol's Social, Tech Foreshadowing." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 9, 2019), p. B10, ill. (color, installation photo).
Anita Katz. "Prime Pop Art." San Francisco Examiner (May 29, 2019), p. 13, ill. (color detail).
Blake Gopnik. Warhol. 1st ed. New York, 2020, pp. 299–302, 345, 371, 374, 519, ill. p. 288 (Warhol with painting), notes the work was commissioned as a birthday present for Ethel Scull from her husband Bob Scull.
Stephan Diederich inAndy Warhol. Ed. Gregor Muir and Yilmaz Dziewior. Exh. cat., Tate Modern, London. New York, 2021, pp. 41, 46, 209 n. 12, ill. pp. 134–35 (color).
Written by Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
1967
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