As one of the most iconic and influential artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol has helped to define America. His signature images of such American products and celebrities as Campbell's soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor have become instantly recognizable, while challenging traditional and cherished distinctions: between fine and commercial art, the mechanical hand made, popular taste and high culture, repetition and singularity. In doing so, Warhol himself has attained a level of celebrity and public visibility unknown to most artists.

Yet despite the intense attention paid to Warhol since the time of his death, in 1987, his preoccuption with another American icon, the automobile, has been largely overlooked. The Montclair Art Museum now breaks new ground in presenting Warhol and Cars: American Icons, the first exhibition to examine Warhol's enduring fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society. Highlighting MAM's pivotal, little known, early silkscreen painting, Twelve Cadillacs (1962), Warhol and Cars features more than 40 drawings, prints, photographs, and related archival documents on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum and private collections spanning Warhol's career from 1946 to 1986.

The exhibition was on view at MAM March 6 – June 19, 2011. For more information on Warhol and Cars at MAM see our past exhibitions.

Traveling Schedule:

The Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
February 5 – May 13, 2012
warhol.org

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
June 25 – September 16, 2012
artsbma.org

Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale
November 4, 2012 – February 10, 2013
moafl.org

Image: Warhol and Cars: American Icons at The Andy Warhol Museum, 2012
Photo Richard Stoner, Courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh