Red Camel
Artist/Maker
Larry Rivers
United States, 1923-2002
Date1978
CultureAmerican
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsSheet: 22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57.2 x 76.5 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Martin B. Grossman
Terms
Object number86.0157
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DescriptionDuring the fifties and sixties, Camel's cigarettes, whose pack featured a camel in the Egyptian desert, was one of America's most popular tobacco brands. Rivers' many appropriations of the commercial imagery probably relate to his fascination with Africa, which he visited twice during the sixties, as much as to his interest in Camel's as a ready-made.- Art of North America
1723-1735
