Andy Warhol is a paragon of American Pop Art of the 1960s. Like other artists associated with Pop Art, he borrowed images from popular culture in defiance of traditional sources for fine art. Cultural icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans are featured in Warhol's silkscreen paintings. By using silkscreen, a technique used in mass production, Warhol further denied the notion of art as a unique object bearing the mark of an individual, artistic personality. Baseball was the first photo-silkscreened painting by Warhol. It celebrates the American institution of baseball and incorporates a news photograph of New York Yankee Roger Maris. Maris became famous in 1961 after he broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
Gift of the Guild of the Friends of Art and other friends of the Museum
Image: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York