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Sun Oct 12, 2008 - Sun Jan 25

Warhol's Jews

Ten Portraits Reconsidered


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Date and Time
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
district: Downtown/Financial District

Sun Oct 12, 2008 (11am - 5:30pm )
Mon Oct 13, 2008 (11am - 5:30pm )
Tue Oct 14, 2008 (11am - 5:30pm )
Thu Oct 16, 2008 (1pm - 8:30pm)
Fri Oct 17, 2008 (11am - 5:30pm )

Description
About the exhibition:
Andy Warhol’s extraordinary series, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, portrays a pantheon of great Jewish thinkers, politicians, performers, musicians, and writers. Included in the series are such celebrated figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, and Gertrude Stein. This exhibition is the first time Warhol’s original paintings have been shown on the West Coast as part of a major exhibition about the series and the individuals it portrays.

First shown at The Jewish Museum, New York in 1980, Ten Portraits was met with both critical response and praise. While many were skeptical of the artist’s intentions, others applauded his new language of color, geometric shape, and sharp line. The series represents an important and influential body of work as well as an homage to these extraordinary figures of the twentieth century.

The exhibition was organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with guest curator Richard Meyer, professor of Art History at the University of Southern California, and it will open first at the Jewish Museum, New York in spring 2008.



Sponsors:
The exhibition was organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, and The Jewish Museum, New York, with guest curator Richard Meyer, professor of Art History at the University of Southern California.

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered and companion catalogue are made possible by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Lead support for the San Francisco presentation comes from Bank of America Foundation and the Jim Joseph Foundation with additional major support from Sam Hamilton and Jennifer Chaiken, Stephan and Maribelle Leavitt, Fern and William Lowenberg, Ken Zankel, and Roselyne C. Swig.