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Andy Warhol's Cow wallpaper is one of eight wallpaper designs Warhol created from 1966 to 1983. The Cow wallpaper was printed in four color combinations between 1966 and 1976 in connection with specific exhibitions or installations. The source image for the cow is from an unknown book on animal husbandry, a page of which is in the Andy Warhol Museum archives; the image Warhol used is titled "A Good Jersey Head."

Warhol signed 100 to 150 sheets of each design, but otherwise the wallpaper was printed in unlimited editions. The wallpaper was executed by Bill's Wallpaper Studio in Queens, New York from Warhol's specifications.

According to Warhol, the inspiration for the cow image came from art dealer Ivan Karp:

Another time he said, 'Why don't you paint some cows, they're so wonderfully pastoral and such a durable image in the history of the arts.' (Ivan talked like this.) I don't know how 'pastoral' he expected me to make them, but when he saw the huge cow heads — bright pink on a bright yellow background — that I was going to have made into rolls of wallpaper, he was shocked. But after a moment he exploded with: 'They're super-pastoral! They're ridiculous! They're blazingly bright and vulgar!' I mean, he loved those cows and for my next show we papered all the walls in the gallery with them.^[1]

The show Warhol refers to is his April, 1966 show at the Leo Castelli Gallery, which consisted only of Cow Wallpaper in one room, and a second room with Warhol's silver helium-filled Clouds.^[2]

The historian and critic Barbara Rose interpreted Cow Wallpaper as a commentary on the nature of art collecting and the character of the institutions where art is displayed. In a review of Warhol's 1971 retrospective show at the Whitney, she observed that cows are a common subject of genre paintings that people display in their homes, and that the wallpaper made the Whitney look like "a boutique." She continued, "Of course the museum has been a boutique for a long time, and people have been treating paintings like wallpaper even longer. But Andy spells it out with his usual cruel clarity."^[3]

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Artists in the exhibition, by residence

California

Great Britain

Northeast U.S.

Carl Andre
Richard Artschwager
Ronald Bladen
Walter de Maria
Tom Doyle
Dan Flavin
Paul Frazier
Daniel Gorski
Robert Grosvenor
Douglas Huebler
Donald Judd
Ellsworth Kelly
Lyman Kipp
Sol LeWitt
Tina Matkovic Spiro
Robert Morris
Peter Pinchbeck
Salvatore Romano
Tony Smith
Robert Smithson
Anne Truitt
David von Schlegell
Richard Van Buren

^ Warhol, Andy; Hackett, Pat (1980). POPism: The Warhol 60s. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 18. ISBN 9780151730957.
^ "Andy Warhol". Castelli Gallery. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
^ Rose, Barbara (31 May 1971). "In Andy Warhol's Aluminum Foil, We Have All Been Reflected". New York Magazine. p. 55. ISSN 0028-7369.

[1] Warhol, Andy; Hackett, Pat (1980). POPism: The Warhol 60s. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 18. ISBN 9780151730957.

[2] "Andy Warhol". Castelli Gallery. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

[3] Rose, Barbara (31 May 1971). "In Andy Warhol's Aluminum Foil, We Have All Been Reflected". New York Magazine. p. 55. ISSN 0028-7369.

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