Northwest Coast Mask, from Cowboys and Indians, Unique Trial Proof, 1986

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Andy Warhol
Northwest Coast Mask, from Cowboys and Indians, Unique Trial Proof, 1986
1986

About the Item

This screenprint is part of a portfolio of works Warhol created in 1986 titled Cowboys and Indians. Other works in the Cowboys and Indians Series include General Custer, Sitting Bull, Kachina Dolls, Geronimo, Annie Oakley, War Bonnet Indian, Buffalo Nickel, Action Picture, Plains Indians Shield, Mother and Child, Indian Head Nickel, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. Andy Warhol, Northwest Coast Mask, 1986 is Warhol’s take on the ceremonial mask from the native cultures of the Northwest Coast. Warhol chose to keep the colors in this work true to the colors commonly used in these masks, blue and red in particular. The use of a contrasting purple and gold creates a sense of three-dimensionality, drawing out the facial features of the mask. If Cowboys and Indians can be considered Warhol’s explorations of the reality and fiction of the American West, his inclusion of Northwest Coast Mask shows an awareness of the reality of Native American culture. The tradition of ceremonial masks in the Northwest Coast culture area, stretching along the Pacific Coast north of California, has existed for several thousand years. Andy Warhol’s Northwest Coast Mask is seen in relation to works such as Kachina Dolls and Plains Indian Shield. All of these objects could be seen to represent a Native American reality, but each is representative of a different Native American culture. By including them all in the same series, Warhol calls into question the monolithic identity given to the diversity of Native Americans in romanticized notions of the American West. Created in 1986, Andy Warhol’s Northwest Coast Mask is a color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board and is hand signed in the lower right corner in pencil. Numbered from the edition of 36 trial proofs, aside from the numbered edition of 250, published by Gaultney, Klineman Art Inc., New York and printed by Rupert Jason Smith, New York. Catalogue Raisonné & COA: Andy Warhol, Northwest Coast Mask, from the Cowboys and Indians Series, 1986 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work). 1. Feldman, Frayda and Jörg Schellmann. Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 – 1987, 4th Ed. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003. About the Framing: Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, artist name title, year is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.

Creator:
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987, American)
Creation Year:
1986
Dimensions:
Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
Medium:
Screen
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Palo Alto, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: 75441stDibs: LU156728594462

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Andy Warhol

The name of American artist Andy Warhol is all but synonymous with Pop art, the movement he helped shape in the 1960s. He was phenomenally prolific, and the archive of original photography, prints, drawings, paintings and other art that he left behind is beyond vast.

Andy Warhol is known for his clever appropriation of motifs and images from popular advertising and commercials, which he integrated into graphic, vibrant works that utilized mass-production technologies such as printmaking, photography and silkscreening. Later in his career, Warhol expanded his oeuvre to include other forms of media, founding Interview magazine and producing fashion shoots and films on-site at the Factory, his world-famous studio in New York.

Born and educated in in Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 and built a successful career as a commercial illustrator. Although he made whimsical drawings as a hobby during these years, his career as a fine artist began in the mid-1950s with ink-blot drawings and hand-drawn silkscreens. The 1955 lithograph You Can Lead a Shoe to Water illustrates how he incorporated in his artwork advertising styles and techniques, in this case shoe commercials.

As a child, Warhol was often sick and spent much of his time in bed, where he would make sketches and put together collections of movie-star photographs. He described this period as formative in terms of his skills and interests. Indeed, Warhol remained obsessed with celebrities throughout his career, often producing series devoted to a famous face or an object from the popular culture, such as Chairman Mao or Campbell’s tomato soup. The 1967 silkscreen Marilyn 25 embodies his love of bright color and famous subjects.

Warhol was a prominent cultural figure in New York during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The Factory was a gathering place for the era’s celebrities, writers, drag queens and fellow artists, and collaboration was common. To this day, Warhol remains one of the most important artists of the 20th century and continues to exert influence on contemporary creators.

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