Single sided uncut exhibition announcement poster published in conjunction with opening held at Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, January 7, 1969 of Warhol's 1968 edition of "Soup Cans," screenprints printed by Salvatore Silkscreen Co., Inc. and published by Factory Additions.
"Andy Warhol sees like a saint. His perversity is often just flat-out candor, upsetting only because we can't get around its truth. His red and white Campbell's soup can is famous because it stuck as a symbol of today's American-nostalgic, mass produced, labeled and bottled up. Two new suites of soup prints vary the motif. The first, showing the familiar image, becomes camp-solemn classical because of the second which reflects Campbell's latest attempt to modernize itself. Yellow banners read, One of the Manhandlers, or, Stout Hearted Soup. Each can is a person funny and lovable. These talk of we who doggedly keep pace without moving." —- William Wilson, "Art Walk : A Critical Guide to the Galleries," Los Angeles Times, January 10, 1969.