
Art Institute of Chicago
Mao
Andy Warhol · 1972
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist through Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Musee Galliera, Andy Warhol Mao, Feb. 23–Mar. 18, 1974, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Seventy-First American Exhibition, June 15–Aug. 11, 1974, cat. 91 (illustration is of a different version).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, Feb. 6–May 2, 1989, cat 361; Art Institute of Chicago, June 3–Aug. 13, 1989; London, Hayward Gallery, Sept. 7–Nov. 5, 1989; Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Nov. 21, 1989–Feb. 11, 1990; Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Feb. 25–May 27, 1990; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, June 21–Sept. 10, 1990, (New York and Chicago only).
- Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum, long-term loan for inaugural installation, Jan. 1994–Mar. 1997.
- Mexico City, Fundacion Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, Andy Warhol. Dark Star, June 1–Sept. 17, 2017, no cat. no, as Mao, 1973.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again, Nov. 12, 2018–Mar. 31, 2019, no cat. no.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 19–Sept. 2, 2019; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 20, 2019–Jan. 26, 2020 (San Francisco and Chicago only).
Literature
Published references
- Nick Baldwin, 'Super-Realism’ at Chicago,” Des Moines Register, July 7, 1974 (ill).
- Douglas Davis, “Summing Up the Season,” Newsweek, July 1, 1974, p. 73 (ill.)
- J. A., “American Art ’74: It Defies Classification,” Milwaukee Journal, August 4, 1974 (ill).
- Bill Marvel, “Today’s Trend Is No Trend—Fun for Artists, if Not Critics,” Art Picture, August 17, 1974.
- Hilton Kramer, “Art: Esthetic Smorgasbord in Chicago,” New York Times, July 6, 1974 (ill.)
- Alan G. Artner, “Cabbages, 'Curve,’ and Warhol’s Mao in American Closeup,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 4, 1974.
- Anne Rorimer, Andy Warhol’s Mao, 1973, (Bulletin of Art Institute of Chicago, 69, 3 (May–June 1975), pp. 4–7 (ill).
- “Big Maoist Influence at the Art Institute,” Chicago Magazine, July 1978, p. 16 (ill).
- Hilton Kramer, “Art: Whitney Shows Warhol Works,” New York Times, November 23, 1979.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/ Little, Brown, 1988), p. 191. 2d ed. (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press, 1999), p.158.
- Charles Stuckey, "Warhol in Context," in The Work of Andy Warhol, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, 3, ed. Gary Garrels (Seattle: Bay Press, 1989), p. 4.
- David Bourdon, Warhol/David Bourdon (Harry N. Abrams, 1989), pl. 248 (partial view).
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