Q 01/05

Which artist painted the Campbell's Soup Cans series?

A) Andy Warhol

B) Roy Lichtenstein

C) Claes Oldenburg

D) Jasper Johns

Answer · why

A) Andy Warhol

He was a successful commercial illustrator looking for a subject that would set him apart from Lichtenstein and Rosenquist.

Q 02/05

How many canvases make up the original Campbell's Soup Cans series?

A) 36

B) 48

C) 50

D) 32

Answer · why

D) 32

Each shows a different variety of Campbell's soup on the same 20-by-16-inch canvas.

Q 03/05

In which city were the Campbell's Soup Cans first exhibited, in July 1962?

A) Chicago

B) Los Angeles

C) New York

D) Pittsburgh

Answer · why

B) Los Angeles

Warhol did not attend, there was no formal opening, and the show coincided with La Cienega Boulevard's Monday Art Walk.

Q 04/05

What was the name of the West Coast space that gave the soup cans their first show?

A) Castelli

B) Ferus

C) Stable

D) Janis

Answer · why

B) Ferus

Its owner had visited Warhol's studio in May 1962, when he was working on his sixteenth soup can, and was amazed he had no dealer.

Q 05/05

Which art dealer kept the original 32 canvases together as a set and eventually helped MoMA acquire them?

A) Irving Blum

B) Sidney Janis

C) Eleanor Ward

D) Leo Castelli

Answer · why

A) Irving Blum

He put them on permanent loan to the National Gallery of Art in 1987, two days before Warhol died, and MoMA bought them in 1996.