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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Jul 10, 2022, 08:59 AM Jul 2022

On July 9, 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at an LA gallery. [View all]

Sixty years ago today, the pop artist Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at a Los Angeles gallery, one for each flavor of soup then in production.

Not long after, the company sent over a lawyer.

wtop.com
Why Campbell Soup hated, then embraced, Andy Warhol’s soup can paintings | WTOP News
It started with immense skepticism, but Campbell Soup eventually grew to embrace Andy Warhol’s artwork and sponsored a Warhol exhibition at the


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