October 12 - January 25, 2009
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street (between Third and Fourth streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.655.7800
Hours
Open daily (except Wednesday): 11 AM- 5:30 PM
Thursday: 1 PM - 8:30 PM
Adults: $10
Seniors (65 and older) and students with a valid ID: $8
Members and youth 18 and under: Free
Thursdays after 5 PM: $5 for all visitors (free for children 18 and under and Members)
About the Exhibition
Andy Warhol’s extraordinary series, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, portrays a pantheon of great Jewish thinkers, politicians, performers, musicians, and writers. Included in the series are such celebrated figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, and Gertrude Stein. This exhibition is the first time Warhol’s original paintings have been shown on the West Coast as part of a major exhibition about the series and the individuals it portrays.
First shown at The Jewish Museum, New York in 1980, Ten Portraits was met with both critical response and praise. While many were skeptical of the artist’s intentions, others applauded his new language of color, geometric shape, and sharp line. The series represents an important and influential body of work as well as an homage to these extraordinary figures of the twentieth century.
The exhibition was organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with guest curator Richard Meyer, professor of Art History at the University of Southern California. Warhol's Jews debuted at The Jewish Museum, New York in spring 2008.
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