Warhol made Sunset, a commission by the architecture firm Johnson & Burgee, to decorate the landmark Hotel Marquette in Minneapolis. Four hundred seventy-two of the prints were used in the hotel, while 160 were assembled into forty unique portfolios of four prints, one of which is on view here. Warhol made all the prints using three screens—one to apply the background bands of color, one for the sun itself, and one with a single-color dot pattern. He inked the screens in various color combinations and printed them with varying registration to create 632 unique screenprints. Portfolios of Sunset are rare today; with this acquisition, the Museum's representation of Warhol's various printmaking strategies is complete.

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New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois, June 13, 2012–January 7, 2013.

Medium Portfolio of four screenprints
Dimensions composition and sheet (each): 34 1/16 x 34" (86.5 x 86.4 cm)
Publisher David Whitney, New York
Printer Salvatore Silkscreen Co., Inc., New York
Edition 40
Credit Gift of Stephen F. Dull
Object number 139.2012.1-4
Department Drawings and Prints

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

American, 1928–1987 258 works online

Two exhibitions in 1962 announced Andy Warhol’s dramatic entry into the art world. In July, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, he exhibited his now-iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans .

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