Campbell's Soup Cans

Andy Warhol · 1962

Before you is Campbell's Soup Cans — thirty-two canvases, one for every variety Campbell's sold in nineteen sixty-two. Warhol said he had eaten the soup for lunch for twenty years.

Medium Acrylic with metallic enamel paint on canvas, 32 panels · Dimensions Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide · Credit Partial gift of Irving Blum Additional funding provided by Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, gift of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, Philip Johnson Fund, Frances R. Keech Bequest, gift of Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, and Florence B. Wesley Bequest (all by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 412: Colombia

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Liquor Store Window, Composition with Color Planes 5, Nasielk III, Composition with Red and Blue, Composition C, Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray

More by Andy Warhol here: The Last Supper, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times, Gold Marilyn Monroe