Acrylic paint and silkscreen on 2 canvases
Pop Art and its Legacy
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
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Gun
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
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gun, handgun
objects
photographic
repetition
weapons
<p>In 1968, a hanger-on at Warhol’s studio, ‘The Factory’, shot and wounded the artist. The gun in this work is similar to the .32 snub-nosed pistol Valerie Solanas used in her attack. ‘If only she had done it when the camera was on’, Warhol reportedly said. At this monumental scale the gun is a dramatic prop, as if seen in close-up on a cinema screen, perhaps more a symbol of power than a threatening weapon. But the blood red colour hints at the visceral effects of violence.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 2010</em></p>
painting acrylic paint silkscreen 2 canvases
3 April 2009 – 14 March 2010
2010-03-14
3 April 2009 – 14 March 2010
2010-03-14
2009-04-03
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2009-04-03
Andy Warhol
Collection based display
23 March 2010 – 30 January 2011
2011-01-30
23 March 2010 – 30 January 2011
2011-01-30
2010-03-23
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2010-03-23
Andy Warhol Part II
Collection based display
27 March 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
27 March 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
2011-03-27
Southampton City Art Gallery (Southampton, UK)
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/arts
2011-03-27
ARTIST ROOMS 2011: 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
19 March 2016 – 12 June 2016
2016-06-12
19 March 2016 – 12 June 2016
2016-06-12
2016-03-19
Firstsite (Colchester, UK)
http://www.firstsite.uk.net/
2016-03-19
ARTIST ROOMS 2016: Andy Warhol
Loan-out
19 November 2016 – 16 April 2017
2017-04-16
19 November 2016 – 16 April 2017
2017-04-16
2016-11-19
Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.whitworth.man.ac.uk
2016-11-19
ARTIST ROOMS 2016: Andy Warhol
Loan-out
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
1 October 2023 – 31 January 2024
2024-01-31
1 October 2023 – 31 January 2024
2024-01-31
2023-10-01
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane (Dublin, Ireland)
2023-10-01
Three Times Out
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
Gun
support, each: 1782 × 2286 × 40 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>Death emerged as a distinctive theme in Warhol’s work in the 1960s, with his Marilyn Monroe portraits and the 'Death and Disaster' series. His fears about dying were heightened in 1968 when he was shot and critically injured by Valerie Solanas. The gun depicted here is similar to the .22 snub-nosed pistol that she used. At around the same time as he was painting guns Warhol was also doing a series of knife pictures. Indeed, the first idea was to show them together, along with some dollar-sign paintings, at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in January 1982.</p>

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emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gun, handgun objects photographic repetition weapons