The Solomon R Guggenheim
Richard Hamilton British
Publisher Editions Alecto of America, Ltd. American
Printer Kelpra Studio Limited British
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.
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