Billy Name: Andy Warhol with Inflatable Baby Ruth Bars / Silver Factory
In this photograph by Billy Name, Andy Warhol is shown posing, his expression characteristically deadpan, with a clutch of giant inflatable Baby Ruth chocolate bars. Name, a lighting designer turned photographer, was also responsible for lining Warhol’s studio with foil and spray paint, creating the reflective environment for performances, films, and art production that became known as the Silver Factory. The Baby Ruth bars were commissioned by Warhol from the Plastic Convertible Corporation and used as comedic props in his unfinished 1966 film Since (Kennedy’s Assassination), undercutting any attempt at reverence around the president’s death.
Artist: Billy Name
Date: 1966
Medium: Hand-pulled serigraph
Dimensions: Unframed: 25 × 19 inches (63.5 × 48.3 cm); Framed: 33 1/2 × 27 × 1 1/8 inches (85 × 68.5 × 2.8 cm)
Edition: Edition 12/30
Framed: Sold framed
