American artist Rosalyn Drexler, famed for her Pop Art work, painted "Chubby Checker" in 1964. The painting is based off the the poster for the film "Twist Around the Clock" (1961), staring Chubby Checker, a performer who played a major role in popularizing the Twist dance craze.
Chubby Checker
- Provenance
- Kornblee Gallery, New York, to 2 April 1964
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 2 April 1964-17 May 1966
- Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
- Exhibition History
- GREY ART GALLERY, New York University. "Rosalyn Drexler: Intimate Emotions," 14 July-28 August 1986, ill. TOUR: GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, South Carolina, 9 September-12 October; UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART, Iowa City, 15 November-11 January 1987.
- PACE WILDENSTEIN, New York. "Rosalyn Drexler: Paintings from the 1960's," 16 March-21 April 2007.
- ROSENWALD-WOLF GALLERY, Philadelphia. "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968," 22 January-15 March 2010. TOUR: SHELDON MUSEUM, Lincoln, Nebraska. 30 July-26 September; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, 15 October 9 January 2011; TUFTS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, Medford, Massachusettes, 20 January-27 March 2011.
- MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. front cover and p. 29.
- Published References
- UNSIGNED. "Pop Pop!," HiFi/Stereo Review (August 1965), ill. p. 54.
- LIPPARD, LUCY. Pop Art (New York: Praeger, 1966), p. 133, ill. p. 135.
- WOMEN'S PROGRAM OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Women Artists: A Checklist of Works in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), ill.
- Data Source
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Artist
- Rosalyn Drexler, American, b. Bronx, New York, 1926
- Date
- 1964
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
- Medium
- Oil and acrylic with photomechanical reproductions on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75 x 65 1/4 in. (190.3 x 165.6 cm)
- Type
- Painting
