Flowers and Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1965, ©2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.This month, a new exhibition at Eykyn Maclean gallery, New York is the first to shed light on a lesser-known body of work in the expansive career of Andy Warhol: his Flowers series. Hitherto famed for his referencing of mass media and commercial branding imagery, the iconic pop artist took a different of tack in 1964 and, inspired by a photograph of seven hibiscus flowers by Patricia Caulfield, featured in Modern Pho...