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Richard Hamilton

b. 1922, Londond. 2011, Oxford, United Kingdom

The Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1965–66

Fiberglass and cellulose

Richard Hamilton is often identified as a founder of Pop art, alongside curator Lawrence Alloway. Both were members of the Independent Group—a circle of artists and critics in 1950s Britain who supported new technology and mass culture as a platform for creating visual art.

These fiberglass reliefs belong to a group of six works made from the same mold. The series was inspired by a color postcard of the Guggenheim Museum, which led Hamilton to study photographs of the building alongside Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural plans. Taken together, they reflect Pop art's broader preoccupation with repetition and the serial production methods of commercial printing.