Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) 4A by Andy Warhol includes highly iconic imagery that is widely recognizable in the Pop Art movement. Once again, Warhol takes the ever-present American pantry staple and transforms it into high art—this time on a shopping bag. Warhol, originally a commercial graphic artist, found the imagery of the Campbell’s soup label a powerful visual tool. The soup cans could represent the role of mass consumerism in postwar American society. This particular work is a special addition to Warhol’s Campbell’s suite, as it is printed onto a shopping bag, adding another layer of irony to the work in its use.

Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) 4A as Part of Andy Warhol’s Larger Body of Wor