Warhol was particularly interested in the early 1960s with products of mass consumerism—the best-known examples of which are his Campbell's Soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles. Warhol anticipated those series by a few months with the appropriation of this advertisement for Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads that appeared in Redbook magazine in the autumn of 1961. Warhol's hand-painted blow-up references the burgeoning Postwar culture of consumption and self-improvement that American advertisers had begun to promote and inflame.
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Title:Dr. Scholl's Corns
Artist:Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
Date:1961
Medium:Casein and wax crayon on canvas
Dimensions:48 × 40 in. (121.9 × 101.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Halston, 1982
Accession Number:1982.505
Inscription: Signed and dated (on reverse): Andy Warhol 1960
the artist, New York (at least 1970); Halston, New York (by late 1970s–82; his gift to MMA)
New York. Dia Art Foundation. "Hand-Painted Images: Andy Warhol 1960-1962," November 5, 1986–June 13, 1987, no catalogue.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," February 6–May 2, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," June 3–Aug 13, 1989.
London. Hayward Gallery. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," September 7–November 5, 1989.
Cologne. Museum Ludwig. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," November 20, 1989–February 11, 1990.
Venice. Palazzo Grassi. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," February 25–May 27, 1990.
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective," June 19–September 9, 1990.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. "Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955–62," December 6, 1992–March 7, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 197; as "Dr. Scholl," 1960).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955–62," April 3–June 20, 1993, unnumbered cat.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955–62," July 16–October 3, 1993, unnumbered cat.
Scottsdale Center for the Arts. "Neo–Dada: Redefining Art, 1958–62," November 4, 1994–January 1, 1995, unnumbered cat. (fig. 40; as "Dr. Scholl").
New York. Equitable Gallery. "Neo–Dada: Redefining Art, 1958–62," January 27–March 26, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston. "Neo–Dada: Redefining Art, 1958–62," June 2–July 30, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Medford, Mass. Tufts University Art Gallery. "Neo–Dada: Redefining Art, 1958–62," October 6–December 3, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Miami. Florida International University Art Museum. "Neo–Dada: Redefining Art, 1958–62," January 5–March 3, 1996, unnumbered cat.
Kunstmuseum Basel. "Andy Warhol: The Early Sixties, Paintings and Drawings 1961–1964," September 5, 2010–January 23, 2011, no. 2.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," September 10–December 31, 2012, no. 2.
Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol Museum. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," February 4–April 28, 2013, no. 2.
Pittsburgh. The Andy Warhol Museum. "Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body," October 21, 2016–January 22, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 51).
Rainer Crone. Andy Warhol. New York, 1970, p. 237, no. 7, ill. p. 87, locates it in the collection of the artist.
David Bourdon. "Review of Exhibitions | New York: Andy Warhol at Dia Art Foundation and Larry Gagosian." Art in America 75 (April 1987), p. 213.
Susan Hapgood and Jennifer Rittner. "Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-1962." Performing Arts Journal 17 (January 1995), ill. p. 66, call it "Dr. Scholl" and date it 1960.
Georg Frei and Neil Printz, ed. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, Paintings and Sculpture 1961–1963. London, 2002, pp. 55, 58, no. 037, ill. p. 57.
Stefan Neuner inAndy Warhol: The Early Sixties, Paintings and Drawings 1961–1964. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel. Ostfildern, 2010, p. 57.
Nina Zimmer, with Maren Stotz, and Georg Frei inAndy Warhol: The Early Sixties, Paintings and Drawings 1961–1964. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel. Ostfildern, 2010, p. 67, no. 2, ill. p. 77 (color).
Mark Rosenthal inRegarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 13, 19, 288, no. 2, ill. p. 15 (color).
Meredith Blake. "ART; 'Regarding Warhol' and Then Some." Los Angeles Times (September 30, 2012), p. E6.
John J. Curley. A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War. New Haven, 2013, pp. 70, 71–73, 80, 218, fig. 47 (color).
Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
1968
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