Additional funding is provided by public television viewers. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs. Nearly 1, acres in Brandywine Valley, Delaware, the property is simply spectacular, with rolling meadows, woodlands, and naturalistic gardens-- and, of course, one of the top collections of American decorative art in the country, from the colonial period up to the mids.
Founder Henry Francis du Pont was passionate about sharing these amazing treasures with the public. And decades after his death in , the nonprofit Winterthur Museum continues to draw American history buffs and antiques lovers alike. And these are based on a painted series that he had done and first exhibited at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
Just as he was shifting from his career as an advertising artist in New York to more of a fine artist. And Warhol got on the map and became a famous artist through his appropriation of everyday images. And he said that one of the reasons he chose Campbell's Soup early on is because, as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh So he made a, a set of ten different subjects, ten different soups, in the first Campbell's Soup series, number one, in These were done in an edition of , each of the prints, and each of them are signed in ballpoint pen and ink and numbered with a rubber ink stamp.
And you can see that on the back of this image, because the mat is nicely cut out Somebody cut it out, right. Now, he was very well known when these were made, and the reason why he made them in the late '60s, based on a painted series from the early '60s, is that he could make multiple images of them, and, using screen print, run off a lot, and ten times , you have 2, prints to be sold from this series. These were printed in New York and published through Warhol's publishing outfit called Factory Additions.
Even though he was well known at the time, a lot of people viewed these as, as A lot were put on the wall, and from the late '60s on to today, have lost their color, have been damaged, so So we have to separate the sentiment and family connection from this and look at it coldly, as a portrait of a pensive, middle-aged woman from the midth century.
