Flowers
Andy Warhol American
Not on view
To create a body of work for an exhibition at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery that autumn, in June 1964 Warhol selected a photograph of hibiscus flowers he saw in Modern Photography magazine taken by Patricia Caulfield, the magazine’s executive editor. Cropping the image into a square format, Warhol sent for silkscreens in two sizes: 48- and 24-inch squares. By early the following year, Warhol was producing Flowers in ever diminishing scale, from 15- to 8- to 5-inch squares. For his presentations of these series, the artist tiled the walls with multitudes of variants, and this colorful jewel speaks to the flexibility and scalability of Warhol’s practice at this moment in the mid-1960s, just before he moved further away from painting to experiments with wallpaper, the Silver Clouds, and film.
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