Six Pack

Sculpture

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di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Name/Title

Six Pack

Entry/Object ID

72

Description

Ceramic six pack of green bottles with gold caps

Artwork Details

Medium

Glazed ceramic

Category

Sculpture

Acquisition

Accession

AR72

Source or Donor

Hansen Gallery

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Made/Created

Artist

Robert Carston Arneson

Date made

1964

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Object

Height

10 in

Width

9-1/4 in

Depth

6-1/2 in

Exhibitions

The Incorrect Museum: Redux
Robert Arneson Retropsective
The Not-So-Still Life
A Happening Place
Building A Different Model: Selections from the di Rosa Collection

Notes

-Building a Different Model: Selection from the di Rosa Collection, Guest Curator, Dan Nadel, Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA, March 9 - December 30, 2019. -Collections in Context: Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture

Research Notes

Research Type

Curator

Date

2019

Notes

In the early 1960s Robert Arneson began to play with vernacular forms, producing for instance a prescient 1961 sculpture No Deposit, No Return, a capped bottle bearing that inscription. This was just a year after Jasper Johns’s Ale Cans (1960) was first exhibited. Because Ale Cans remained unpublished in art magazines until 1964, Arneson would not have seen it until then, but as he would throughout his career, he caught the zeitgeist. Of the new objects he attempted in the ensuing few years, among the most successful was this detailed Six Pack. Arneson called this and other related works “not really Pop, because they’re much more romantic, and they’re dealing with the touch.” Moreover, the caps are all on—this is work ready to be touched and imbibed.