Skip to main content

Link to Smithsonian homepage

Smithsonian Music

Main menu

  • Calendar
  • Listen
  • Learn
    • Ask Smithsonian
    • Collections Spotlights
    • Music Stories
  • Watch
  • Blog

Chubby Checker

Object Details

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

Featured In

  • Music and Fashion
  • Musicians as Art
  • Rock and Roll Music
  • The Art of Rock and Roll
There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .
International media Interoperability Framework
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
View manifest View in Mirador Viewer

Link to Smithsonian homepage

  • About
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • YouTube
  • Twitter
Back to Top