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 did Warhol spend his first soup can show's opening night?

A) Signing cans

B) Staying away

C) Hiding upstairs

D) Filming guests

Answer · why

B) Staying away

Staying away in New York, he left the opening to others; he made the trip a year later, when the same gallery filled its front room with his pictures ...

Q 03/05

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

A) Chicago

B) Los Angeles

C) San Francisco

D) Pittsburgh

Answer · why

B) Los Angeles

Los Angeles got the show because a dealer there offered him one when no New York gallery would take him on.

Q 04/05

What was the name of the gallery that first showed Warhol's soup cans in 1962?

A) Castelli

B) Ferus

C) Stable

D) Janis

Answer · why

B) Ferus

Ferus got the show because its director, visiting Warhol's studio that spring, watched him at work on the cans and offered him the gallery.

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

Irving Blum talked the first buyers into giving up their canvases, then kept the set at home for 25 years, sometimes hanging it in his dining room.