Through December 31, 2019
WARHOL and the WEST will be the first museum exhibition to fully explore Andy Warhol’s love of the west represented in his art, movies, attire, relationships and collecting. In 1986, Warhol completed his Cowboys and Indians portfolio, the last major project before his death. It included images of 14 iconic Western subjects such as Custer, Geronimo and John Wayne. This group of images has been exhibited at many museums, but never in the full context of Warhol’s continued involvement with Western people, places and things.
His other Western subjects include Elvis as a movie gunslinger, Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hopper, guns, Indian art, Western artists R.C. Gorman, Georgia O’Keeffe and Fritz Scholder, plus two Western movies he produced. Warhol wore cowboy boots more often than not and loved to travel to Taos, Fort Worth and Colorado. All of this and more will be revealed in Warhol and the West, a major traveling exhibition of more than 100 objects and works of art. Opening August 25 in Cartersville and traveling over the next year to Oklahoma City and Tacoma, Washington.
