Campbell's Soup Cans

This article is about the artwork by Andy Warhol. For other uses, see Campbell's Soup Cans (disambiguation).

Campbell's Soup Cans
ArtistAndy Warhol
Year1962
Catalogue79809
MediumSynthetic polymer paint on canvas
MovementPop Art
Dimensions20 by 16 inches (51 cm × 41 cm) each for 32 canvases
LocationMuseum of Modern Art. Acquired from Irving Blum in 1996, New York
(32 canvas series displayed by year of introduction)
Accession476.1996.1–32

Campbell's Soup Cans is a series of 32 paintings completed by Andy Warhol in 1962. Each painting depicts a different variety of Campbell's soup cans in a uniform 20-by-16-inch format. First exhibited in July 1962 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, the works marked a breakthrough for Pop Art and challenged traditional distinctions between fine art and commercial imagery. Warhol's association with the subject led to his name becoming synonymous with the Campbell's soup cans.

Drawing on his background as a commercial illustrator, Warhol transformed everyday packaging into high art, prompting initial controversy but eventual acclaim. The Campbell's Soup Cans series generally refers to the original 32 canvases, but it also encompasses Warhol's many subsequent variations: approximately 20 similar paintings produced in the early 1960s; a 1965 set of 20 larger multi-colored canvases; numerous related drawings, sketches, and stencils created over the years; and two separate editions of 250 ten-print screen print portfolios issued in 1968 and 1969. The original 32 canvases were preserved by art dealer Irving Blum and later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1996.

Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are widely regarded as a canonical symbol of Pop Art and one of the most influential bodies of art of the 20th century. The series capitulated Warhol to fame and reshaped debates about originality, reproduction, and the meaning of art in a consumer society.

Background

Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 after studying at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and quickly found success as a commercial illustrator, with his first published drawing appearing in Glamour that same year.[1][2] He held his first gallery exhibition in 1952 at the Bodley Gallery and, throughout the 1950s, regularly showed drawings and exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in 1956.[3][1] During this period, he developed techniques involving tracing photographs and transferring inked images—methods that anticipated his later serial processes.[4]

Warhol at the Jewish Museum in New York, 1980

In 1960, Warhol began producing canvases based on comic strips, but he supposedly confined himself at the time to soup cans as a subject in order to avoid competing with the more finished style of comics done by Roy Lichtenstein.[5] Warhol once said, "I've got to do something that really will have a lot of impacts that will be different enough from Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, that will be very personal, that won't look like I'm doing exactly what they're doing."[6] By 1961, seeking a distinct direction within emerging Pop Art, he turned to everyday commercial imagery such as Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles.[7]

In 1961, Warhol was wavering between the action painting of abstract expressionisms, with its use of drips and brushstrokes. Experimenting with hand painting, stenciling, and rubber stamps, he began in January 1962 to standardize his process using acrylic paint and serial repetition.[8] Between November 1961 and June 1962, Warhol created the 32 hand-painted Campbell's Soup Cans, each based on a different variety. Contrary to later confusion, the original works were not silkscreens but traced and painted canvases incorporating stamped details.[9] As he refined his serial methods in 1962, he moved toward silkscreening, which would define his later practice.[10]

Warhol was being featured in a May 11, 1962, Time magazine article "The Slice-of-Cake School",[11] which noted that he was "currently occupied with a series of 'portraits' of Campbell's soup cans in living colour", with Warhol quoted as saying, "I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about...I'm working on soup...I just do it because I like it."[12]

In May 1962, dealer Irving Blum visited Warhol's studio, saw the soup can series in progress, and offered him a solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.[13][14] Warhol was assured by Blum that the newly founded Artforum magazine, which had an office above the gallery, would cover the show. Blum also used the lure of Hollywood celebrity to entice Warhol to exhibit out west.[15][16] Dennis Hopper and his then-wife Brooke Hayward held a welcoming party for the event to help Warhol meet West Coast artists and celebrities.[17][18] The show opened on July 9, 1962, marking Warhol's first West Coast solo exhibition and a pivotal moment in the rise of Pop Art.[19][20]

Exhibitions

In June 1962, Warhol sent Irving Blum thirty-two 20-by-16-inch canvases, each depicting a different variety of Campbell's Soup.[21] A June 26 postcard from Blum confirmed their arrival and advised keeping prices low during the initial Los Angeles showing.[22] Though later often described as silkscreened, the original works were hand-painted, closely resembling the red-and-white cans then sold in exactly thirty-two varieties—"marking a time," as Warhol noted.[23][24]

723 La Cienega Boulevard, former location of the Ferus Gallery in Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, 2023

The exhibition opened July 9, 1962, at the Ferus Gallery, with Warhol absent and without a formal opening.[25][26] The opening coincided with La Cienega Boulevard's popular Monday Art Walk.[27] The paintings were displayed in a single row on narrow ledges, like grocery items on a shelf.[28] Only five or six paintings initially sold, including Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato), which was reserved by actor Dennis Hopper before the opening.[29][30] When no further buyers emerged, Ferus Gallery director Irving Blum proposed keeping all 32 works together as a single set, an idea Warhol approved.[31] Blum persuaded the initial purchasers to relinquish their claims and agreed to buy the entire group himself, paying Warhol $1,000 in ten monthly installments of $100.[32] Los Angeles art collector Donald Factor, who maintained that he had also chosen Tomato, reportedly remained resentful of the decision as Warhol's market value later rose substantially.[33]

The exhibition closed on August 4, 1962. The day after, actress Marilyn Monroe died, and Warhol began working from a publicity still of Monroe, initiating his shift toward celebrity imagery. He returned to exhibit at Ferus in October 1963 with portraits of Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor.[15] Blum retained the soup cans as a complete set for over twenty-five years before their eventual acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has since displayed them in various configurations, often as a grid arranged by the historical introduction dates of the soup flavors.[34][21][21]

Subsequent exhibitions

In August 1962, Warhol's Pop art received its first museum presentation in a survey exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, prompting his first fine-art review in The New York Times, which described the Campbell's Soup can paintings as "big steps towards art that is socially to the point."[35]

That same year, dealer Martha Jackson canceled a planned December exhibition of his work, citing negative repercussions, though her assistant John Weber nonetheless sold ten paintings on consignment.[36][37] In October 1962, Warhol participated in Sidney Janis Gallery's landmark exhibition The New Realists: An Exhibition of Factual Painting & Sculpture, showing 200 Soup Cans, Big Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle), and other works alongside artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg.[38][39][40] The show had a seismic impact on the New York art world and helped cement Pop Art's national prominence.[40]

Warhol's first New York solo Pop exhibition opened on November 6, 1962, at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery.[41] Although no soup cans were included, the show featured works such as Marilyn Diptych and earned strong critical praise. [41] In the years that followed, especially after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, the soup cans increasingly came to symbolize a more complex vision of American culture—shifting from everyday consumer icon to emblem of a society grappling with upheaval and loss.[42]

Critical reception

The initial reaction to the exhibition was marked by skepticism and sales were minimal but the show quickly generated debate about art, commerce, and mass production. The nearby Primus Stuart Gallery mocked the show by stacking a pyramid of real Campbell's Soup cans in its window beneath a sign reading, "Do Not Be Misled. Get the Original. Our Low Price 2 for 33 Cents."[25][43]

The Los Angeles Times published a cartoon ridiculing the paintings, and critic Jack Smith questioned whether Warhol was serious, writing that he briefly suspected "Mr. Warhol might have had his tongue in his cheek."[43][25] However, Irving Blum, proprietor of the Ferus Gallery, insisted otherwise: "This young fellow is deadly serious." Blum argued that Warhol was introducing subject matter in "a very new, fresh way," describing the paintings as possessing "a relentlessness… with a terrifying, Kafkaesque intensity."[25] While acknowledging that their ultimate importance in art history remained to be seen, Blum maintained that he was convinced of their validity.[25]

In a review for Artforum, Henry T. Hopkins described the exhibition as having "peculiar significance" for those who grew up amid the commercial imagery of the 1930s and 1940s, including comic books, mail-order catalogues, and the "Campbell Soup Kids."[44] He noted that although the show "may make a neat, negative point about standardization it also has a positive point to make. In a tenderloin-oriented society it is a nostalgic call for a return to nature.[44] Hopkins observed that Warhol avoided expressive painterly technique in favor of a "hard commercial surface," and concluded that, despite their conceptual premise, individual preferences still emerged; his personal favorite among the series was Onion.[44]

In an article for the Art Journal regarding Warhol's show at Bennington College in 1963, Suzy Stanton viewed the work as a "criticism of the decay of modern civilization", and the cans as a symbol of dehumanization for the "urbanized and mass-producing civilization with its bourgeois values."[45]

The Campbell's Company

Company history

1905 version of the Campbell's Soup can and label in a print ad

What became the Campbell's Company was started in 1869 by Joseph A. Campbell, a fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Abraham Anderson, an icebox manufacturer from South Jersey.[46] Although Anderson left the company in 1876, his son, Campbell Speelman, remained at Campbell's as a creative director and designed the original Campbell's soup cans.[47] In 1894, Arthur Dorrance became the company president.[48] In 1897, John T. Dorrance, a nephew of company president Dorrance, began working for the company.[49][50] In 1897, Dorrance, a chemist, developed a commercially viable method for condensing soup, leading to the famous label's origin in 1898.[46][51] In the 21st century, the label continued to retain elements of the 1898 design, such as the tilted letter "O" in the word Soup, and the gold medal that was added in 1900.[52][53] The original label was inspired by the Cornell Big Red football team uniforms.[33] When Campbell's Soup Cans was presented in 1962, the Campbell's soup can label had not changed in the previous 50 years.[54]

Reaction to Warhol's art

1968 version of the Campbell's Soup label in a print ad; image by John Alcorn

Although Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans were publicly discussed by May 1962, he initially hoped the Campbell Company would remain unaware, believing that any commercial tie-in would undermine the work's meaning.[55][12] During the July 1962 Ferus Gallery exhibition, Campbell's CEO William Murphy sent legal representatives to assess "use and violation of trademarks."[56][57] The company considered legal action but ultimately chose to observe public reaction instead.[58] Within months, soup-can-inspired fashion appeared in Manhattan society, and by late 1962, Campbell's shifted its stance, commissioning Warhol to paint a Campbell's tomato soup can as a gift for retiring board chairman Oliver G. Willits.[58][59] In 1964, the company sent Warhol complimentary cases of soup in a gesture of goodwill.[60]

Tensions resurfaced in 1967 when Campbell's objected to the unauthorized use of its label on an exhibition announcement for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and sent a letter to Random House outlining its legal position before publication of a Warhol monograph.[61] The company maintained that his artworks did not infringe on its intellectual property so long as he did not reproduce the logo on actual products.[62]

Though Campbell’s never sued Warhol over the paintings themselves, later U.S. Supreme Court opinions suggested he likely would have prevailed under fair use principles. Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice, stated, "Campbell's Soup seems to me an easy case because the purpose of the use for Andy Warhol was not to sell tomato soup in the supermarket...It was to induce a reaction from a viewer in a museum or in other settings."[63]

Inspiration

Campbell's Soup Cans is widely regarded as Warhol's signature work.[64] Between November 1961 and mid-1962, he painted roughly fifty soup-can canvases, including the definitive set of thirty-two completed by June 1962.[65] According to the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, the project also included three large grid paintings (one depicting 200 cans and two depicting 100 cans) and numerous related still lifes.[66] The original thirty-two were based on photographs taken by his former boyfriend Edward Wallowitch, which Warhol traced and translated into carefully rendered paintings using stencils, stamps, and commercial acrylic paint to heighten realism.[67][68]

Although Warhol had been trained in art school to paint still-life fruit bowls on a table, he longed to paint his favorite variety of Campbell's Soup Tomato. Warhol later recalled a personal connection to Campbell's Tomato Soup, a staple of his childhood lunches in Pittsburgh: "Many an afternoon at lunchtime Mom would open a can of Campbell's for me, because that's all we could afford, I love it to this day."[23] In a 1963 interview, he remarked, "I used to drink it, I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years."[69][70] The image evoked both routine and memory, blending autobiography with mass production.

The soup is said to have reminded Warhol of his mother, Julia, who served it to him regularly while raising him during the Great Depression, as Rusyn immigrants in a Pennsylvania coal mine town.[71] At times, the family could not even afford to splurge on Campbell's Soup and ate soup made from ketchup.[72] It is regarded as doubtful that the Warhol's had Campbell's Soup often, since it was marketed as an upscale item, and Julia was a soupmaker who could cook from scratch.[73] It wasn't until the late 1950s that canned soup was targeted toward the working class.[74]

Condensed Campbell's Soup cans, 2005

Several stories mention that Warhol's choice of soup cans reflected his own avid devotion to Campbell's soup as a consumer.[75] Warhol himself offered varying explanations, reinforcing the work's mix of personal attachment and cultural symbolism. One widely repeated story credits Muriel Latow, who allegedly advised him in late 1961 to paint "something you see every day and that everybody would recognize—like a can of Campbell's Soup," for which she was paid ($526.11 in 2024).[70][73][76] Other anecdotes suggest the idea emerged from grocery shopping, his fondness for soup and Coca-Cola, or even his mother Julia's habit of crafting decorative flowers from tin cans.[77][23][70] Some observed that Warhol merely painted things he held close to his heart. Robert Indiana recalled, "I knew Andy very well. The reason he painted soup cans is that he liked soup."[78]

Despite speculation, Warhol had no initial business relationship with the Campbell Soup Company and preferred none, believing a commercial tie-in would undermine the concept.[79] By 1965, however, the company had embraced his fame, providing labels for exhibition invitations and even commissioning a painting.[80][81] The soup cans ultimately became both an intimate reference point and a defining emblem of American consumer culture.

Interpretation and analysis

Warhol embraced ordinary consumer culture and believed Abstract Expressionism had deliberately ignored the vitality of modern life.[82] With the Campbell's Soup Cans and related series, he sought to affirm the visual language of mass production while stripping away overt emotion, gesture, and personal expression.[83][84] His detached, deadpan style aligned with what Time magazine called the "Slice of Cake School"—artists who treated the banal artifacts of contemporary civilization as legitimate subjects for high art.[82][11]

Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato) (1962); drawings like this were used as the basis for paintings

Unlike Monet's serial studies, which explored subtle shifts of light and perception, Warhol's repetitions emphasized sameness. His soup cans are nearly identical, differing only in minor, often mechanical variations. By adopting commercial techniques—stencils, stamps, and eventually silkscreen—he rejected painterly nuance and traditional markers of artistic skill. Repetition itself became the subject.[83] Echoing Marcel Duchamp's conceptual approach, Warhol suggested that meaning lay not in visual refinement but in the idea of placing fifty nearly identical soup cans on a canvas.[85][86][87]

The effect unsettled critics. Compared with the sensual still lifes of Caravaggio, Chardin, or Cézanne, Warhol's stark, industrial images seemed cold and impersonal. Yet this very neutrality forced viewers to reconsider what qualifies as art.[88] By isolating a familiar supermarket product and enlarging it within the gallery, Warhol shifted attention from craftsmanship to context, from expression to concept.[89] For some European audiences, the work read as Marxist critique or satire of American capitalism; others saw it as a commentary on dehumanization in mass culture.[90][79] Warhol himself maintained an apolitical stance, presenting the cans without overt judgment.[45] In 1962, he said, "I want to show the monotony in the way things are. You se these thing every day and by painting them you realize how boring like really is."[91]

Ultimately, the paintings' near-indistinguishability from their commercial source—combined with their monumental scale and museum placement—provoked uncertainty about the boundaries between art and commodity.[45] In transforming an everyday object into a repeated, iconic image, Warhol reframed both the act of viewing and the meaning of modern art.[92][45]

According to writer David Bourdon, Warhol's pop art may have been nothing more than an attempt to attract attention to his work.[79] David Bourdon notes that Warhol changed the concept of art appreciation. Instead of harmonious three-dimensional arrangements of objects, he chose mechanical derivatives of commercial illustration, with an emphasis on the packaging.[79] Contrary, art critic Blake Gopnik describes Warhol's presentation as objective and unblinking with no promotional intent.[93] Gopnik describes the work as "...radical new pictures in an unknown and weirdly repetitive style by an artist with zero name recognition and no local ties."[94]

The Oxford Art Journal enumerates several subtle imperfections in the Campbell's Soup Can works: shaky and inconsistent contours, parallel line distortions, lettering irregularities. It also describes the blank or unfinished gold medallions as a glaring inconsistency.[7] The initial response to Campbell's Soup cans was that his work began selling briskly,[37] but its controversial nature had bad implications on galleries that carried his work.[36] According to an article for the host museum, Warhol's techniques resulted in "exceptional uniformity" for the 32 soup cans despite differences from the human touch.[95]

Variations

Campbell's Soup I and Campbell's Soup Cans II

Main articles: Campbell's Soup I and Campbell's Soup Cans II

In late 1961, Warhol began learning silkscreen printing from Floriano Vecchi of Tiber Press, refining his technique through repeated visits and advice on pigments and squeegee handling.[6][96] In 1962, he was also influenced by British painter Max Arthur Cohn's screen printing technique.[97][98] By August 1962, Warhol had mastered the process of pushing ink through a glue-prepared silk screen with a rubber squeegee.[6][99] The original thirty-two Campbell's Soup Cans were among the last works Warhol painted largely by hand.[100] [31]

Soon after, he adopted silkscreening to increase efficiency, beginning with U.S. dollar bills images and later revisiting the soup cans.[42] Although silkscreen enabled mass production, no two prints were identical; variations in pressure, clogging, and surface texture created subtle differences. By late 1962, he was producing silkscreens rapidly, and in 1967 he formalized his print operations through Factory Additions.[101] In 1968 and 1969, he issued two editions of ten Campbell's Soup screen prints, each in runs of 250.[102]

The prints have since become highly collectible. In 2016, seven works from a 1968 Campbell's Soup I set were stolen from the Springfield Art Museum; the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced a $25,000 reward for information about the stolen art pieces from the Campbell's Soup I (1968) set.[103][104] The remaining works were insured as a group for $750,000.[105]

When the Art Gallery of Ontario acquired a full Campbell's Soup I set in 2017, it became the first set in a public collection in Canada.[106] On November 8, 2022, climate-change protesters glued themselves to and vandalized another version of the "Campbell's Soup I" set that was on display at the National Gallery of Australia.[107][108]

An edition of the second set, Campbell's Soup Cans II (1969) is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.[109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118] The Museum of Modern Art also has one of these sets.[119] In 2013, Hot Dog Bean soup from this set sold for $258,046 ($348325 in 2024) in Vienna.[57]

Colored soup cans

1965 multi-colored versions from the Milwaukee Art Museum collection

In 1965, Warhol returned to the Campbell's Soup cans motif, replacing the familiar red-and-white palette with bold, varied color combinations. He produced a set of twenty large canvases, each measuring 3 by 2 feet (91 × 61 cm), using four or five colors in addition to black and sometimes white. Unlike the earlier, more standardized series, these works emphasized chromatic experimentation and individual variation. Ken Johnson, of The New York Times, noted that, in contrast to Warhol's usual "mechanical repetition", each painting was remarkable for its uniqueness.[120]

This set is regarded as significant enough to be exhibited as a cohesive body of work. At least one entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art prior to 2004.[121] 19 of the 20 paintings were known to survive when 12 of them were presented in an exhibition in 2011.[122]

Unauthorized versions

In 1970, Warhol entered into a collaboration in which he facilitated exact duplications of some of his 1960s works by providing the photo negatives, precise color codes, screens, and film matrixes for European screen print production. Warhol signed and numbered one edition of 250 before subsequent, unauthorized, unsigned versions were produced.[123][124] The unauthorized works were the result of a falling out between Warhol and some of his New York City studio employees who went to Brussels where they produced work stamped with "Sunday B Morning" and "Add Your Own Signature Here".[125] Some of the unauthorized productions bore the markings, "This is not by me, Andy Warhol".[124] Art galleries and dealers market "Sunday B Morning" reprints of several screen print works, including those from the Campbell's Soup can sets.[126]

Other variations

After the success of his original 1962 paintings, Warhol continued to explore the Campbell's Soup motif in numerous variations. By 1982, he had created more than 100 renderings, ranging in size from intimate 20-inch canvases to monumental works nearly 6 feet tall.[127][128] Some versions depicted torn or peeling labels, dented cans, or opened lids, expanding the imagery beyond the pristine commercial façade.[129][8] Together with the original 32 canvases, these works are collectively known as the Campbell's Soup Cans series.

At the 1964 American Supermarket exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, where Warhol showed alongside Roy Lichtenstein and others, he exhibited both soup can screen prints and actual autographed cans, which he jokingly referred to as his "Duchamp number," underscoring the readymade tradition.[130][131] Fans frequently sought his signature on cans, and Warhol or his assistants often obliged.[132][133]

Among the most significant works is 200 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), a 72 × 100 inch canvas composed of ten rows and twenty columns of different soup varieties.[134] Now in the private collection of John and Kimiko Powers, it is the largest single canvas in the series and widely regarded as a landmark of Pop Art, bridging earlier precedents such as Jasper Johns and anticipating Minimal and Conceptual art.[135] Around this time, Warhol refined his technique, moving from hand painting to stamps, stencils, and eventually silkscreen, using synthetic polymer paint and ink on canvas.[136] The mechanical process introduced slight irregularities—ink buildup, seepage, or misalignment—that became part of the works' character.[10] An early precursor to the series is Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato Rice) (1961), executed in ink, tempera, crayon, and oil.[137][138]

In many versions, Warhol simplified the can's gold medallion, replacing its detailed allegorical figures with a flat yellow disk, reinforcing the image’s graphic flatness.[79] Works featuring torn labels have often been interpreted metaphorically, suggesting impermanence beneath consumer packaging.[139]

The breadth of the series, its collaborative production, and the high market value of Warhol's work led to the creation of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board in 1995 to certify authenticity; it was dissolved in 2012 following costly legal disputes.[140] The cultural and financial significance of the soup can images has also made them targets of theft: a Campbell's Soup Cans painting estimated to have been worth €35,000 (€43011 in 2023) was stolen from the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in 2015.[141] In 2021, a lithograph from the series was stolen from art curator Gil Traub in Manhattan.[142] Although the thief was identified on security video, the artwork was not recovered.[142]

Art market

Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot) (1962), which sold for $11.8 million in 2006[143]

In 1964, the Campbell’s Soup Cans were reportedly offered for $200 each at the Ferus Gallery, though approximately half a dozen were ultimately sold for $100 apiece.[144][29]

Warhol produced six torn-label Campbell's Soup can paintings, two of which achieved record-setting prices.[145] In 1970, Warhol set a record auction price for a living American artist when Big Campbell's Soup Can with Torn Label (Vegetable Beef) (1962) sold for $60,000 ($485,810 in 2024) at Parke-Bernet.[146][147] The seller was art collector Peter Brant, according to dealer James Mayor.[148] Some accounts suggest the sale may have been arranged rather than fully competitive.[149] The record was surpassed months later when Warhol's rival Roy Lichtenstein sold Big Painting No. 6 (1965) for $75,000 ($607,262 in 2024).[150]

In 1961, Warhol painted a single Campbell's Soup Can on a 20 × 15-inch canvas and gave it to his brother Paul to celebrate the birth of Paul's son. The family eventually auctioned the work on November 13, 2002, at Christie's in New York; it is often regarded as a precursor to the later iconic series.[151]

The market for the soup cans strengthened dramatically in the 2000s. In May 2006, Small Torn Campbell Soup Can (Pepper Pot) (1962) sold for $11,776,000, setting an auction record for the series.[152][153][154] The buyer was Eli Broad, and the work now resides in his museum, The Broad.[155] In November 2010, Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato) (1962), which was first shown at the Stable Gallery, sold for $9 million at Christie's.[156][157]

Market performance has fluctuated. In February 2016, amid a softer contemporary art market, a Large Campbell's Soup Can (1964)—previously sold in 2007 and 2008—fetched $7.4 million at Sotheby's, below expectations.[158] Yet the following year, in May 2017, Big Campbell's Soup Can With Can Opener (Vegetable) (1962) achieved $27.5 million at Christie's, reaffirming the enduring market power of Warhol's Campbell's imagery.[159]

Collection

Blum made the original 32 canvases available to the public through an arrangement with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, by placing them on permanent loan on February 20, 1987, which was two days before Warhol's death.[160][161] While at the National Gallery of Art, they were installed in a 4-row, 8-column grid.[162] The works were on loan to the National Gallery of Art when the Museum of Modern Art acquired them for approximately $15 million on October 9, 1996 ($30.07 million in 2024).[163] The Museum of Modern Art attributes the source of funds for this purchase to a wide variety of sources: "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)."[164]

Legacy

Soup can pillars on the exterior of the Warhol exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, marking the 20th anniversary of Warhol's death, 2007

Following the success of Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol's reputation and influence expanded dramatically. After his death in 1987, The New York Times observed in 1991 that the subsequent years had become an era "dominated by Warhol wanna-bes," emphasizing how thoroughly his aesthetic had permeated contemporary art.[165]

Warhol is widely regarded as the most renowned figure of the Pop Art movement, often synonymous with the genre itself.[82] In 1998, The Wilson Quarterly described him as the "most influential visual artist of the last 50 years," highlighting the breadth of his cultural impact beyond painting into media, celebrity culture, and commercial design.[166] Newsweek journalist David Wallace-Wells argued that the soup cans "introduced a mass audience to fine art, and made American painting truly democratic, shattering category distinctions and reshaping aesthetic criteria as dramatically as Marcel Duchamp had with his Fountain."[167]

Initially skeptical of Warhol, Campbell's executives ultimately recognized how his work elevated the brand's visibility and embraced the advertising power it generated.[56] In 1985, Campbell's commissioned Warhol to paint its dry soup mixes, which were new at the time. In 1993, they bought a Warhol tomato soup can painting to hang in its corporate boardroom at its headquarters, and by 2012 the company had a licensing agreement with the Warhol estate to use his artwork on a variety of merchandise.[58]

Warhol Tribute (2012) by Roberta Pyx Sutherland on Hornby Island in British Columbia, 2013

In 2007, to mark the 20th anniversary of Warhol's death, the largest exhibition of his work ever presented in Scotland was held at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.[168] As part of the commemoration, large-scale images of Campbell's soup cans were wrapped around the Academy's neoclassical columns, transforming the building's façade into a monumental Pop Art installation.[169]

In 2012, the Hornby Island Community Arts Council commissioned painter Roberta Pyx Sutherland to transform a dented, rusty tank on the island into a public artwork inspired by Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.[170] The piece titled Warhol Tribute was created as a homage marking the 50th anniversary of Warhol's series.[170]

In collaboration with EXMURO, a non-profit producing public art, Canadian art duo Cooke-Sasseville created a large-scale installation as a nod to Warhol. The work titled The Odyssey (2014), comprises of a giant Campbell's soup can flanked by three oversized pigeons.[171] The installation was first presented as part of the Passages Insolites exhibition in Québec City in 2014 and 2015, and was later installed at various locations in Ottawa.[172] In 2025, it was displayed in Springfield, Massachusetts, marking the first time the work had been installed in the United States.[173]

Influence on artists

The Odyssey (2014) by Cooke-Sasseville displayed at Place de Bordeaux in Québec, 2015

Willem de Kooning, who was among the artworld's elite by the 1960s, was among the artists who used the word soup metaphorically in reference to abstract expressionism, saying "Everything is already in art, Like a big bowl of soup. Everything is in there already...", while other New York artists used soup as a slang word when discussing their art.[174]

According to Gopnik, there is scholarly opinion that Warhol's repetition of nearly identical Campbell's Soup Cans could be linked to Yves Klein's identical blue monochrome paintings. Gopnik notes that Klein had invited Warhol to his early 1962 wedding to Rotraut Klein-Moquay, and Warhol's work had incorporated International Klein Blue.[175]

In May 1961, Warhol purchased six miniature versions of Frank Stella's Benjamin Moore painting series. In this series, Stella represented the entire Benjamin Moore product line with a painting for each color. Scherman and Dalton feel this could have partly served as an inspiration for the complete set of Campbell's Soup cans.[176]

Richard Pettibone attended Otis Art Institute in Southern California in the early 1960s. He made his debut at the Ferus Gallery two years after Warhol. Pettibone made a career as an appropriation artist, and his version of Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans were one of his often credited works.[177][178]

In 1994, Campbell's launched the "Art of Soup" contest to influence artists to create renditions of their soup label.[179] The competition drew more than 10,000 entries and was judged by a panel that included Warhol's brother, Paul Warhola.[179] The winner, announced at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1995, was Matthew Balestrieri, an 11-year-old from San Juan Bautista, California, whose artwork was based on Ancient Egypt.[180] In 1997, Campbell's sponsored another "Art of Soup" contest in honor of its 100th anniversary and the 35th anniversary of Warhol's iconic series.[56] More than 5,000 entries were submitted, and Warhol's brother John Warhola was a judge.[56] The first-place winner, Dino Sistilli of Woodbury, New Jersey received a $10,000 prize for a sheet of commemorative postage stamps featuring various Campbell soup flavors; his work and other top entries were displayed at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.[181]

Warhol is said to have been an inspiration for Jeff Koons and Banksy.[86] Koons carried Warhol's motif of art as commodity into the 21st century.[182] According to Irish Arts Review writer Riann Coulter, Neil Shawcross was influenced by Warhol's 1962 presentation of American culture with everyday food packaging in that year when Shawcross moved to Belfast. Shawcross eventually produced an exhibition entitled Letters to Andy after visiting the Andy Warhol Foundation.[183] Louise Lawler also appropriated Campbell's Soup Cans for Soup (2022) for her Distorted for the Times series.[184]

In pop culture

Warhol themed promotions
multicolored commemorative Campbell's soup cans (front)
50th anniversary cans sold at Target in 2012
multicolored commemorative Campbell's soup cans (back)
1967 Campbell's Souper Dress

In 1967, Campbell’s produced the promotional Souper Dress, which customers could purchase for $1 ($9.43 in 2024) plus two soup can labels.[33] The paper dress—featuring repeating Campbell's Soup can graphics—became an iconic example of Pop Art crossing into fashion.[33] In 1995, it entered the costume collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one year before the Museum of Modern Art acquired Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.[185][163]

Warhol and the soup cans have also appeared frequently in popular culture. The 1999 "Mom and Pop Art" episode of The Simpsons features Warhol tossing soup cans at Homer Simpson.[186] In the 2015 film Minions, the character Herb Overkill (voiced by Jon Hamm) references Warhol's soup cans while joking about stealing one because it expressed his love of soup in painted form.[187] The series is also prominently featured in Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns.[87]

Commercial collaborations have further extended the imagery's reach. In 2004, Campbell's had collaborated with Giant Eagle on a four-pack of Warhol-inspired cans.[188] By December 2004, The New York Times reported that the cans were retailing for $20 (about $33.29 in 2024) at the East Village, Manhattan shop Howdy Do.[189]

In 2012, the brands Vans and Supreme released footwear incorporating the Campbell's label.[190] That same year, Campbell's marked the 50th anniversary of the series by partnering with Target Corporation to sell four limited-edition Warhol-inspired tomato soup can designs in U.S. stores; 1.2 million cans sold at $0.75 each.[191][192]

In 2015, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts partnered with Converse to produce a special-edition Chuck Taylor All-Star collection featuring Campbell's Soup can prints, Warhol-inspired advertisements, and newspaper motifs.[193][194] The collaboration echoed Warhol's own practice in the 1980s, when he customized his personal Chuck Taylors with hand-drawn designs.[195]

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