Uncle Sam Wants Shoe

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Uncle Sam Wants Shoe

Entry/Object ID

2021.57

Description

Orange heeled shoe with yellow straps. Under the shoe reads "Uncle Sam Wants Shoe!"

Artwork Details

Medium

Lithograph, Watercolor

Context

The collection of works here date from the early to mid 1950s, the period when Warhol was primarily producing illustrations for the shoe manufacturer Israel Miller. Warhol’s colorful designs depict shoes and boots adorned with gold leaf, embossed foil, and decorative cut outs. Beneath each design is scrawled a pithy phrase or aphorism such as à la recerche du shoe perdue, a reference to Marcel Proust’s magnum opus A la recherche du temps perdu. Other works in this collection depict the chic and fashionable city dwellers Warhol would have seen on the streets and at parties upon first moving to New York.

Acquisition

Accession

2021.51-57

Source or Donor

Judy Blumberg

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Judith K. Blumberg

Made/Created

Artist

Warhol, Andy

Date made

1950

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Lithograph

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Planographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Print

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Lithographs, Shoes

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

11-1/2 in