Under the seminal direction of Irving Blum, Ferus Gallery quickly became one of the leading galleries on the West Coast, showing important and groundbreaking works — including Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, Roy Lichtenstein’s Drowning Girl, and Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles County Museum on Fire — and helping to launch the American Pop movement.
Ferus was first published on the occasion of the 2002 exhibition of the same name at Gagosian’s Chelsea gallery. A timeline documenting the Ferus gallery’s history opens the fully illustrated catalogue, followed by an interview with Irving Blum by Roberta Bernstein and a critical discussion of Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can paintings by Kirk Varnedoe.
This hardcover edition is 148 pages, with 93 color and 67 black-and-white reproductions, including evocative documentary photography by Dennis Hopper.
Reviewed by IR Staff