Which artist created Campbell's Soup Cans in 1962?

Andy Warhol created Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1961–62, with the series completed in 1962.

The best-known original group consists of 32 canvases, each showing a different Campbell’s soup variety in a uniform 20-by-16-inch format. Warhol painted them at his New York home and presented the completed series at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in July 1962.

The paintings helped define Pop Art by treating familiar supermarket packaging as a serious artistic subject. Warhol drew on his earlier career as a commercial illustrator, using the precision and repetition of advertising while shifting attention from heroic or traditional subjects to mass-produced consumer goods.

People often confuse the original series with Warhol’s later Campbell’s soup screen prints and larger, multicolored variations. The first 32 canvases were hand-painted rather than silkscreened and are now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Roy Lichtenstein were influential contemporary artists, but Warhol made this series.