Pop Art

This upstart movement of the 1960s tapped images from popular culture and commercial products and boldly celebrated them as the source of its imagery.

Playfulness, humor, and irony were at the core of these artists’ reactions to the serious Abstract Expressionists. However, the decade of the 1960s produced a whirlwind of other movements including Op Art, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and shaped canvas. By the late 1960s the number of galleries in New York dedicated to Pop had all but disappeared, leaving only Warhol and a few others still in the limelight.

Leo Jensen

1926 - 2019
American

Leo is the only American artist who actually grew up in the circus. He became a pioneer in Pop Art in the early 1960s, and was the first to create kinetic Pop sculpture. Here’s a fascinating and truly unique chapter in the history of American Art.

William Kent

1919 - 2012
American

His images of politics, the environment, and sex are as explosive now as they were 60 years ago. Not only did he invent a new printing medium but a New York Times critic called him “the world’s greatest living carver of wood; there’s not even anyone close.”