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The Solomon R Guggenheim

Printer Kelpra Studio Limited British
1965
Not on view
In 1963 Hamilton met the American artist Richard Artschwager, whose images of apartment blocks and skyscrapers led Hamilton to develop his own "building portraits." He asked his friend Lawrence Alloway, curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, to send photographs and other materials related to the museum’s distinctive architecture. After studying plans developed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Hamilton produced his own elevations and sections. He based this print on one of those many drawings. Borrowing a technique employed by other Pop artists including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Hamilton rendered sections of the facade with a visible Benday dot pattern, thereby calling attention to the process and materials involved in the print’s creation.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Solomon R Guggenheim
  • Artist: Richard Hamilton (British, London 1922–2011 Oxfordshire)
  • Publisher: Editions Alecto of America, Ltd. (New York, NY)
  • Printer: Kelpra Studio Limited (British, second half 20th century) and the artist
  • Date: 1965
  • Medium: Screenprint from five stencils
  • Dimensions: plate: 22 5/16 x 21 13/16 in. (56.7 x 55.4 cm)
    sheet: 22 15/16 x 30 1/8 in. (58.2 x 76.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Jim Dine, 1979
  • Object Number: 1979.667.11
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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