New Painting of Common Objects

New Painting of Common Objects displayed works by artists including Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Joe Goode and Andy Warhol. Many of these artists appropriated images from mass advertisements, consumer products and commercial labels. In total, 24 works were displayed, including Ruscha’s Actual Size (1962); Warhol's Green Stamps (1962); and Lichtenstein’s Roto Boil (1961). Ruscha, Goode, Dowd, Hefferton and Dine also contributed original, hand-drawn mimeographs. The exhibition was presented alongside another exhibition entitled US Abstract Expressionism in order to contrast two major and concurrent art movements in 1962.