The Popular Image Exhibition, scarce LP record and catalogue

for the show held at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, April 18 - June 2, 1963. Participating artists included Jim Dine, George Brecht, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, John Wesley, Robert Watts, Tom Wesselman, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg. Billy Klüver, Swedish engineer turned art director, recorded and edited interviews with all eleven artists and released it on a record. The record and catalogue are housed together in a transparent plastic sleeve, originally they were contained in a printed envelope with Jim Dine cover (not in this lot). Album cover shows some shelf wear, edges somewhat rubbed and with a few occasional cracks.

(1) Billy Klüver, Record of interviews with artists participating in the Popular Image Exhibition. Vinyl record 33 1/3 RPM, with printed labels, kept in plain white paper inner sleeve, 30.5 x 30.5 cm. The outer sleeve is all white, with printed labels pasted on the vinyl, 31.8 x 31.8 cm. (2) The Popular Image Exhibition catalogue, cover image by Jim Dine. Published by Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961. Staplebound, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 24 pp. Ill. b/w, text by Alan R. Solomon. Booklet with small creasing and a 2 cm tear at foot. Catalogue and LP overall in good condition. Very scarce. (total 2)