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CHRONOLOGY


1958


January-February


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Jasper Johns."


March


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Robert Rauschenberg."


October-November


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Group exhibition includes Johns, Marisol, and Rauschenberg.


1959


February-March


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. "Jim Dine, Marc Ratliff, Tom Wesselmann."


May-June


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. "Drawings, Sculptures, Poems by Claes Oldenburg."





October


Art Directions Gallery, New York. "Dick Artschwager and Richard Rutkowski."


October


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. "Judson Group." Exhibition includes Dine, Oldenburg, and Tom Wesselmann.


November-December


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. "Oldenburg-Dine."


December-January


1960 Reuben Gallery, New York. "Below Zero." Show includes Dine, Grooms, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, and George Segal.


December-February


1960 Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Sixteen Americans." Exhibition includes Johns and Rauschenberg.


1960


January-February


Reuben Gallery, New York. " Paintings." Show includes Dine, Oldenburg, and Segal.





January-March


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. Exhibition of The House by Dine and The Street by Oldenburg.





February-March


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. "Ray Gun and Spex." Oldenburg's first Happening, Snapshots from the City, in the environment of The Street. Dine presents The Smiling Workman in the House.


May


Reuben Gallery, New York. "Claes Oldenburg." His first solo show, with a variation of The Street.


May


Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. "Tom Wesselmann and Marc Ratliff."


June


Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. "New Media - New Forms." Show includes Dine, Robert Indiana, and Oldenburg.


September- October


Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. "New Media - New Forms II." Show includes Dine and Oldenburg.


1961


May


Dance Studio, New York. "Contemporary American Art: Stephen Durkee, Robert Indiana, and Richard Smith."


May-June


Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. "Environments, Situations, Spaces." Features objects from Oldenburg's The Store and Dine's Spring Cabinet.


June


Oldenburg moves studio to storefront at 107 East 2nd Street, New York.


October-November


Allan Stone Gallery, New York. "Stephen Durkee."


October-December


Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Art of Assemblage." Exhibition includes Indiana, Johns, Marisol, and Rauschenberg.


November-December


Everett Ellin Gallery, Los Angeles. "Jasper Johns Retrospective."


December


Tanager Gallery, New York. "Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude."


December-January 1962


Second version of The Store created in conjunction with Green Gallery at Oldenburg's studio.


1962


January-February


Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. "Jim Dine."


January-February


Green Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist."


January-February


Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. "Peter Saul."


February-March


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein." His first show at Castelli. Consists of new cartoon images.


February-May


"The Store," New York. Oldenburg presents performances.


April-May


Allan Stone Gallery, New York. "Wayne Thiebaud."


April-May


Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas. "1961." Group exhibition includes objects from Dine, Roy Lichtenstein's The Kiss, and Oldenburg's The Store. Also includes Johns, Rauschenberg, and Rosenquist.


May-June


Green Gallery, New York. "George Segal."


July-August


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Andy Warhol." One-person show of Campbell's soup cans.


August


Mi Chou Gallery, New York. "Art of Two Ages: The Hudson River School and Roy Lichtenstein."


September-October


Green Gallery, New York. " Claes Oldenburg." First display of large-scale "soft" sculptures.


September-October


Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena. "New Paintings of Common Objects," including Dine, Lichtenstein, Ruscha, Thiebaud, and Warhol.


October-November


Stable Gallery, New York. "Robert Indiana."


November-December


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "International Exhibition of the New Realists." Exhibition of European New Realists and American Pop artists, including Dine, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Segal, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


November


Stable Gallery, New York. "Andy Warhol."


November-December


Green Gallery, New York. "Tom Wesselmann: Collages/Great American Nude & Still Life."


November-December


Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Show includes Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Warhol, Wesley, and Wesselmann. December Pace Gallery, Boston. "Stock Up for the Holidays." Show includes Dine, Indiana, Marisol, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


December 13


Museum of Modern Art, New York. Symposium on Pop Art including Dore Ashton, Henry Geldzahler, Hilton Kramer, Stanley Kunitz, Peter Selz and Leo Steinberg. Transcript published in Arts, April 1963.


1963


January-February


Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. "66th American Annual Exhibition." Rosenquist is the only Pop artist to win a prize. Indiana, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, and Segal participate as well.


February


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Jim Dine."


February


Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. "Peter Saul."


February-March


Robert Elkon Gallery, New York. "John Wesley."


March-April


Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. "Pop Goes the Easel." Exhibition includes Dine, Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


March-May


The Jewish Museum, New York. "Robert Rauschenberg." Retrospective.


March-June


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. "Six Painters and the Object." Exhibition includes Dine, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Warhol. Show travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; University of Michigan Museum of Art; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; and the Art Center in La Jolla.


April


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Roy Lichtenstein."


April-May


Gallery of Modern A-rt, Washington, D.C. "The Popular Image Exhibition." Dine, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Warhol, Wesley, and Wesselmann.


April-May


Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. "Popular Art: Artistic Projection of Common American Symbols." Exhibition includes Dine, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Thiebaud, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


April-May


Thibaut Gallery, New York. "Allan D'Arcangelo."


May


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Edward Ruscha."


May-August


Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Americans 1963." Exhibition includes Indiana, Marisol, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist.


September


Oakland Art Museum, Oakland. "Pop-Art USA." Exhibition includes D'Arcangelo, Dine, Johns, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Ramos, Rauschenberg, Hivers, Rosenquist, Ruscha, Saul, Thiebaud, Warhol, Wesley, and Wesselmann.


September-October


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Andy Warhol."


September-October


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein."


October


Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. "Claes Oldenburg."


October


Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. "Mixed Media and Pop Art." Exhibition includes D'Arcangelo, Dine, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Oldenburg, Ramos, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Segal, Thiebaud, Warhol, Wesley, and Wesselmann. It travels to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.


November


Warhol opens the Factory at 231 East 47th Street, New York.


December-January 1964


Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines. "Signs of the Times III: Paintings by 12 Contemporary Pop Artists." Exhibition includes D'Arcangelo, Durkee, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Ramos, Rosenquist, Thiebaud, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


December-January 1964


Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York. "New Directions in American Painting." Organized by the Poses Institute of the Arts, Brandeis University. Show includes Dine, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Thiebaud, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


1964


January


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "A View of New York Painting." Show includes Lichtenstein and Warhol.


January-February


Green Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist." After the show, he moves to Leo Castelli Gallery.


January-February


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. " Four Environments by Four New Realists." Including Dine, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, and Segal.


January-February


Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. "67th Annual Exhibition." Includes Dine, Grooms, Saul, and Wesselmann. Dine wins Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal.


February


Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York. "Oyvind Fahlstrom."


February-March


Fischbach Gallery, New York. "Allan D'Arcangelo."


February-March


Green Gallery, New York. "Tom Wesselmann."


February-April


The Jewish Museum, New York. "Jasper Johns." Retrospective.


March


Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. "The New Art." Show includes Artschwager, Dine, Durkee, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Oldenburg, Ramos, Rosenquist, Thiebaud, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


March-April


Green Gallery, New York. "George Segal."


April-May


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Claes Oldenburg."


April-May


Stable Gallery, New York. "Andy Warhol."


April-October 1965


World's Fair, New York. Lichtenstein exhibits mural in Theaterama building of New York State Pavilion. Warhol's piece, also commissioned for the New York State Pavilion, Thirteen Most Wanted Men, is hung on the facade of building but is then painted over (with the artist's permission) by fair officials who find it too politically charged. Indiana is also included.


May


Stable Gallery, New York. "Robert Indiana."


May


Pace Gallery, New York. "Claes Oldenburg."


May


Allan Stone Gallery, New York. "Wayne Thiebaud."


May-September


32nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Americans include Dine, Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg wins international painting prize.


September-October


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Group Exhibition." Show includes Artschwager, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Warhol.


October


Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York. "American Supermarket." Exbibition includes Artschwager, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


October


Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. "Peter Saul."


October-November


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes."


October-November


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Jim Dine."


October-November


Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. "James Rosenquist."


October-November


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Edward Ruscha."


October-January


1965 Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. "The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture." Show includes Dine, Marisol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rivers, and Wesselmann.


November


Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York. "Mel Ramos."


November


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Roy Lichtenstein."


November-December


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Andy Warhol: Flower Paintings."


1965


January


Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. "Arena of Love." Group show based on the theme of "Love." Includes D'Arcangelo, Fahlstrom, Lichtenstein, Ramos, Thiebaud, and Warhol.


January-February


Green Gallery, New York. "Tom Wesselmann."


February-April


Worcester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts. "The New American Realism." Exhibition includes D'Arcangelo, Dine, Grooms, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Segal, Thiebaud, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


February-April


Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. "The 29th Corcoran Biennial." Includes Indiana, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg wins first prize.


April


Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York. "Warhol, Oldenburg, Lichtenstein."


April-May


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist: F- 111."


April-May


Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Pop Art and the American Tradition." Exhibition includes D'Arcangelo, Dine, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Ramos, Rosenquist, Ruscha, Segal, Warhol, Wesley, and Wesselmann.


April-May


Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. "Larry Rivers Retrospective."


April-May


Fischbach Gallery, New York. "Allan D'Arcangelo."


June-September


The Jewish Museum, New York. Rosenquist's F-111


October


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "George Segal."


October-November


David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles. "Mel Ramos."


October-November


Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. "Andy Warhol." Retrospective.


November


Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York. "Mel Ramos."


November-December


Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles. "Edward Ruscha."


November-December


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Ceramics and Pop - Roy Lichtenstein." Exhibition of "Brushstroke" paintings and ceramic works. December Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Pop and Op." Exhibition includes Dine, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Rosenquist, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


December-January 1966


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. "Word and Image." Exhibition includes Dine, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, and Ruscha.


December-January 1966


Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. "Pop and Op, an Exhibition of Graphic Works." Show includes D'Arcangelo, Dine, Lichtenstein, Ramos, Rosenquist, Warhol, and Wesley. Travels to American Federation of Arts Gallery, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art; Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts; High Gallery of Art, Atlanta.


1966


February


Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York. "Pissaro to Lichtenstein." Exhibition includes Dine, Indiana, Oldenburg, Segal, Warhol, and Wesselmann. It travels to the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati.


March


Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. "Peter Saul."


March-April


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "New Work by Claes Oldenburg."


April


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Andy Warhol: Wallpaper and Clouds."


April-May


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist."


April-May


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Marisol." Exhibition of The Party.


May


Stable Gallery, New York. "Robert Indiana."


May


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Tom Wesselmann: Great American Nudes."


May


Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. "Andy Warhol: Holy Cow! Silver Clouds! "


May-September


33rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Americans include Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski.


July


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. " Tom Wesselmann."


September-October


Stable Gallery, New York. "Robert Indiana."


September-November


Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Art of the United States: 1670-1966." Exhibition includes Dine, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Segal, Warhol, and Wesselmann. Inaugural show for the opening of the new Whitney on 75th Street and Madison Avenue.


October


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Erotic Art '66." Exhibition includes Dine, Fahlstrom, Marisol, Rivers, Rosenquist, Segal, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


October-November


Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. "Andy Warhol."


November-December


The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. "Works by Roy Lichtenstein."


November-February 1967


Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Art in the Mirror." Includes Dine, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


1967


January-February


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. " Tom Wesselmann."


January-February


Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York. " Richard Artschwager/Joe Goode/Claes Oldenburg/Robert Watts/H. C. Westermann."


January-February


Robert Elkon Gallery, New York. "John Wesley."


February


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. " Tenth Anniversary Exhibition." Show includes Artschwager, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Warhol.


February-March


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Oyvind Fahlstrom."


February-March


Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. "Dine/Oldenburg/Segal: Painting/Sculpture."


March-April


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "New Work by George Segal."


April-May


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Claes Oldenburg."


April-May


Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena. "Roy Lichtenstein." First traveling retrospective of Lichtenstein's work. Organized in conjunction with and travels to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.


April-June


"The Store," New York. Claes Oldenburg show in his studio at 404 East 14th Street.


June-September


Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The 1960's: Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum's Collection." Exhibition includes Artschwager, D'Arcangelo, Dine, Indiana, Johns, Lichtenstein, Marisol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Segal, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


October


Central Park, New York. "Sculpture in Environment." Oldenburg digs a hole behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


October-November


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein."


October-January 1968


Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. "Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture." Includes Dine, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Saul, Warhol, and Wesselmann.





December


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Homage to Marilyn Monroe." Oldenburg's first fabricated metal sculpture, Lipstick, included. Also work by Fahlstrom and Wesselmann.


December-January 1968


Alexandre lolas Gallery, New York. "Gun-powder Drawings - Edward Ruscha."


December-January


1968 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. "Roy Lichtenstein: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture."


December-February 1968


Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting." Show includes D'Arcangelo, Dine, Indiana,


Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Ruscha, Warhol, Wesley, and Wesselmann.


1968


January-February


Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. "Edward Ruscha: L.A. County Museum on Fire."


February-March


Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. "American Exhibition from the IX Bienal, Sao Paulo." Show includes D'Arcangelo, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Ruscha, Segal, Thiebaud, Warhol, and Wesselmann.


February-May


Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "F- 111. " Rosenquist's mammoth painting is exhibited, with much controversy.


April


Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. "Roy Lichtenstein."


April-May


Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "George Segal: 12 Human Situations."


April-May


Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. *'Robert Indiana."


June


Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. "Claes Oldenburg."


October-November


Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago. "Richard J. Daley." An exhibition by fifty artists protesting violence and repression during the Democratic National Convention that occurred in August. Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist participate.


1969


January


Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. "Andy Warhol."


February


Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. "Roy Lichtenstein."


March


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "Oyvind Fahlstrom."


March-April


Castelli Graphics, New York. "Andy Warhol."


March-April


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist: Horse Blinders."


March-April


Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine. "New York: The Second Breakthrough: 1959-1964." Show includes Dine, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Warhol.


April-May


Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago. "Claes Oldenburg - Constructions, Models, and Drawings." Exhibition of Chicago-related sites and themes.


April-June


The Jewish Museum, New York. "Superlimited: Books, Boxes and Things." Group show of multiple and editioned 3-D objects of the past decade. D'Arcangelo, Dine, Indiana, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Ruscha, Warhol, and Wesselmann included.


May


Yale University, New Haven. Oldenburg's first "feasible" monument, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, is installed on the campus.


May


Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. "Edward Ruscha."


June-July


Moreau Gallery, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. "Robert Indiana: Graphic Works."


September


New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. "Roy Lichtenstein: Rouen Cathedrals and Haystacks."


September-November


Guggenheim Museum, New York. "Roy Lichtenstein." First New York retrospective of Lichtenstein's painting and sculpture. Guggenheim buys its first painting by him, Preparedness. Exhibition travels to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum; and Columbus Gallery of Arts.


September-November


Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Claes Oldenburg." Comprehensive survey of objects and drawings, 1954-1969.


October-November


Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. "The Spirit of the Comics." Includes Fahlstrom, Grooms, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Ramos, Saul, and Warhol.


October-December


Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "Prints by Five New York Painters." Exhibition of works by Dine, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rivers, and Rosenquist.


October-February 1970


Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970." Organized by Henry Geldzahler, the show includes Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Segal, Rosenquist, and Warhol.


November-December


Robert Elkon Gallery, New York. "John Wesley."


December-January 1970


Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. "Roy Lichtenstein."


1970


January-February


Alexandre lolas Gallery, New York. "Edward Ruscha."


February-March


Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Jim Dine." Retrospective.


February-March


Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. "Robert Indiana."


April-May


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "New Work by Wesselmann."


May


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist."


May-June


Pasadena Art Museum. "Andy Warhol." Exhibition travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Whitney Museum of American Art.


October-November


Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. "James Rosenquist."


November


Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. "New Work by Claes Oldenburg."


December-January 1971


Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. "Tom Wesselmann, Early Still Lifes: 1962-1964." Exhibition travels to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City.




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