The Pop Generation: American Art Masters: November 19-December 31, 2026
American Contemporary Art began on July 9th, 1962 when an art dealer named Irving Blum unveiled an exhibition of a series of small paintings of Campbell's soup cans at the Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles. Fast foward from that first, highly successful Andy Warhol exhibition in 1962 to today's continued enthusiasm for the artists of the pop movement. Warhol remains at the top of the mark along with many other artists of the pop generation whose art remains as cool today as it was back then.
Artists shown in the gallery exhibition include:
Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Robert Cottingham, Robert Rauschenberg, Claus Oldenburg, Donald Sultan, Red Grooms, James Rosenquist and Jim Dine.
Andy Warhol (Sunday B Mornings After)
Flower Series, Silkscreen
35 × 35 inches
Sunday B. Mornings silkscreen editions are stamped on the verso in blue ink.
The 'Blue inks' are the current editions and the quality and integrity of the prints are impeccable. They are printed on 'museum board' with the highest quality archival inks. This image is one in the series of Warhol's Flowers.
Jim Dine, "Very Picante," 1995
Color Woodcut, Intaglio, Ed. 35/50 57 5/8 x 42 1/2 inches
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925–2008
Bellini IV, 1988
Photogravure, etching, and aquatint on Arches wove paper
60 × 38.5 inches
Edition: Limited edition of 47, plus artist's proofs and printer's proofs
Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), West Islip, New York
Subject Matter: The print combines imagery from small Renaissance panel paintings (Allegorie, 1490–1504) by Venetian master Giovanni Bellini with Rauschenberg's own contemporary street and urban photography.
Museum Collections: Held in major institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) / MoMA Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Claus Oldenberg
Tomb Design for Marilyn Monroe, Second Version, 1975
Drawing, Watercolor, Wax Crayon and Graphite on Paper 40 x 30 inches
Proposed Monuments: Like many of Oldenburg's works from the era, it belongs to his conceptual series of "proposed monuments" that merge absurd, ironic, or oversized ideas with high-art architectural and sculptural studies.
Aesthetics: The piece features a playful, minimalist, and exaggerated approach to monumental pop culture commemoration, capturing Oldenburg's signature satirical view of celebrity and consumer icons.
Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011
Causeway, 2001
Intaglio, 28 1/4 x 37 3/4 inches
72/100
Beginning with her first published print First Stone in 1961, she produced over 300 print editions, famously remarking to printer Ken Tyler in 1994: "There are no rules, that is one thing I say about every medium, every picture... Go against the rules or ignore the rules, that is what invention is about."
Translating the Soak-Stain Method: She adapted her canvas approach of pouring and diluting pigments onto paper, capturing translucent, bleeding, and overlapping washes of color through graphic mediums.
Collaboration with Master Studios: She worked alongside premier international print workshops, including:
Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
Tyler Graphics
2RC Editrice (Rome)
Crown Point Press and workshops in Kyoto, Barcelona, and beyond.
Jasper Johns,
Donald Sultan, b. 1951
Black Lemons, Dec. 17, 1984
Charcoal on Paper, 55 x 44 inches
Signed with artist's initials, titled and dated
"Black Lemons dec 17 / 1984” vertical right edge
Having graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago, Donald Sultan began his career as an artist in New York in 1975. His oeuvre has spanned from industrial disaster paintings to still lifes depicting everyday objects such as flowers, dominoes, fruit, and buttons. Sultan’s work bridges the divide between conceptualism, abstraction and figuration, while a heavy emphasis on materiality has further been associated with the process of artists of the late 1960s.
Sultan began painting lemons in 1983 – the subject for which he was to become best known – and in 1988 the Museum of Modern Art, New York held a solo exhibition of the artist’s monumental Black Lemon aquatints, made contemporaneously with a series of charcoal drawings of the same subject.
