Western Art Collector – August 2019

Western Pop

A groundbreaking new exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum

examines Andy Warhol’s Western works.

H

aving sat through many of Andy

Warhol’s lengthy films in the 1960s

it was a relief to discover his colorful

silkscreen prints of Marilyn Monroe, Mick

Jagger and other A-list celebrities later in the

decade and into the ’70s and ’80s. I didn’t

discover one of his most significant groups

of screenprints until many years later. His

Cowboys and Indians series was published in

1986, just months before his death. One of the

most unexplored aspects of his career, Warhol’s

love for the West is evident in the series and is

now the centerpiece of a scholarly exhibition,

Warhol and the West.

Seth Hopkins, executive director of the

Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville,

Georgia, comments, “Even ardent fans of

American artist, director and producer Andy

MUSEUM PREVIEW

Cowboys

and Indians:

Annie

Oakley, 1986,

screenprint

on Lenox

museum

board, ed.

55 of 250,

36 x 36”.

Collection

Booth

Western Art

Museum.

By John O’Hern