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Nations Nightmare
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
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15 May 2009 – 5 July 2009
2009-07-05
15 May 2009 – 5 July 2009
2009-07-05
2009-05-15
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2009-05-15
ARTIST ROOMS 2009: Andy Warhol Drawings
Loan-out
17 April 2010 – 23 October 2010
2010-10-23
17 April 2010 – 23 October 2010
2010-10-23
2010-04-17
Perth Museum & Art Gallery (Perth, UK)
http://www.pkc.gov.uk/
2010-04-17
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Andy Warhol
Loan-out
24 September 2011 – 26 February 2012
2012-02-26
24 September 2011 – 26 February 2012
2012-02-26
2011-09-24
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill on Sea, UK)
http://www.dlwp.com/
2011-09-24
ARTIST ROOMS 2011: Andy Warhol
Loan-out
6 December 2014 – 6 September 2015
2015-09-06
1 May 2015 – 6 September 2015
2015-09-06
2015-05-01
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham, UK)
http://www.bmag.org.uk
2014-12-06
Jeremy Deller - Andy Warhol - William Morris
Loan-out
17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
2018-11-17
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2018-11-17
Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi: I want to be a machine
12 December 2020 – 27 March 2022
2022-03-27
12 December 2020 – 13 June 2021
2021-06-13
2020-12-12
Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany)
17 July 2021 – 24 October 2021
2021-10-24
2021-07-17
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
3 December 2021 – 27 March 2022
2022-03-27
2021-12-03
Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, USA)
http://www.aspenartmuseum.org
2020-12-12
Warhol 2020
Loan-out
15 March 2025 – 29 June 2025
2025-06-29
15 March 2025 – 29 June 2025
2025-06-29
2025-03-15
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK)
2025-03-15
Andy Warhol
Loan-out
“The Nation’s Nightmare”
support: 371 × 345 mm
frame: 683 × 551 × 28 mm
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>This provocative linear drawing depicts a young man injecting drugs. It is one of several works that Warhol made relating to the radio programme, ‘The Nation’s Nightmare’ in 1951. A similar drawing to this was printed on the cover of an album of the show and published as a full-page advert in the New York Times – for which Warhol received his first Art Directors Club Medal in 1952. Although employing his blotted-line technique, this work is clearly different from his other commercial drawings of the time. Renowned for quirky illustrations of shoes and handbags, ‘The Nation’s Nightmare’ reveals the darker side of American culture - an aspect which would feature in much of his later work, such as the 'Death and Disaster' series and some of his films of the mid 1960s.</p>

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adults arm body contemporary society drug use film, music and ballet health and welfare literature and fiction man medical objects people radio: ‘The Nation’s Nightmare’ social comment society syringe