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Irving Blum (born 1930) is primarily known as the gallerist who introduced Andy Warhol’s work to the West Coast, famously showcasing his original 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans in his and wife Shirley Blum’s Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles circa 1962.
Mar 7, 2022 · Irving Blum was the man who brought Pop Art and its leading figure, Andy Warhol, to the West Coast. As an early indication of his savvy business mind, Irving saw what was developing in New York’s art world, its post-war buying and selling, as something that could be easily transposed to LA.
Nov 4, 2013 · Irving Blum was one of L.A.’s first successful contemporary art dealers. In 1962, Blum’s Ferus Gallery was the first commercial gallery to show Andy Warhol and went on to promote Ed...
Apr 29, 2015 · Ferus director Irving Blum offered the show to Warhol, who was still relatively unknown as a painter, after he first saw six soup-can canvases in 1961 while visiting Warhol’s apartment on Lexington Avenue that doubled as a studio.
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Oct 23, 2020 · Paul Revere Williams. West Hollywood Fashion Designer Rocks the World in 1964 with Topless Bikini. Irving Blum, Ferus Gallery director, during Andy Warhol’s first-ever commercial gallery exhibit in July 1962 at 723 N. La Cienega Blvd. (in the unincorporated West Hollywood community). (Photo by William Claxton.
Jun 27, 2017 · When Los Angeles gallerists Irving Blum and Walter Hopps offered a young Andy Warhol his first-ever solo painting show, they thought it would be a sensation. They were wrong. Local critics panned it; the Los Angeles Times went so far as to publish a snarky cartoon of two barefoot beatniks contemplating Warhol’s Campbell’s soup paintings.
