In the mid-1950s, artists regularly looked to popular culture as source material for paintings, sculptures, photographs, and printmaking. This "cohesive tendency" was coined pop art and its reach is broad. Included are the early practitioners
Andy Warhol,
Roy Lichtenstein,
Jim Dine, and
James Rosenquist, as well as West Coast
artists Joe Goode and
Ed Ruscha.
Sculptures by Claes Oldenburg will be on view alongside those of
George Segal. Also included is the work of contemporary artists whose use of commercial motifs and everyday objects and materials advance the ideas of pop art's first practitioners, including
Jeff Koons,
Barbara Kruger,
Rita McBride, and
Christopher Wool.