POP! GOES THE WEST
Whitney Western Art Museum, Special Exhibition, at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody Wyoming, 24 May 2025 - 25 January 2026
Curated by Susan Barnett, the Margaret and Dick Scarlett Curator of Western American Art at the Whitney Western Art Museum
May 2025
POP! Goes the West explores complex and realistic depictions of the Old and New West with iconic works by Andy Warhol, Kevin Red Star and other artists, who combine the styles of the Pop Art movement with western subject matter.
Labeled “The painter of Pop Surrealism” by Widewalls Magazine, Andre Von Morisse, Triptych, Three Amigos (Meeting Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull) 2024 is on view at POP! Goes the West
ANDRE VON MORISSE, Three Amigos (Meeting Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull), 2024, oil on canvas, installation view at POP! Goes The West
SELECTED WORKS
POP! Goes The West
EXHIBITION ARTISTS
Neil Ambrose-Smith - Earl Bliss - David P. Bradley - Frank Buffalo Hyde - T. C. Cannon - Anne Coe - Rachel Denny - Jane Deschner - Maeve Eichelberger - Doris Folger - Tom Foolery - George Gogas - Hacer - Robert Martinez - Gordon McConnell - Stan Natchez - Larry Pirnie - Fredrick Prescott - Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe - Kevin Red Star - Thom Ross - Billy Schenck - Fritz Scholder - Robert Seabeck - Bentley Spang - Tracey Stuckey - Willem Volkersz - Andre von Morisse - Andy Warhol - Alex Ziv
EXPLORE
Andre von Morisse
Andre Von Morisse, triptych titled: Three Amigos (Meeting Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull), 2024, oil on three canvases, each 24 x 22 in.
This triptych is a continuation of the artist series “The Inability of Meeting Someone Famous Objectively”. The artist continues his exploration of iconic figures in history focusing on the American West. With Three Amigos he reveals the real names of each amigo: Annie Oakley’s real name was Phoebe Ann Moses. A formidable young woman, she impressed Sitting Bull who adopted her as his daughter and gave her the Indian name “Watanya Cicilla” (Little Sure Shot); When a young boy, Sitting Bull was named “Hoka Psice” (Jumping Badger), his nickname was “Hunkesi” (Slow) because he used to take his time to think things through before taking action. As a grown man he became “Tatanka Iyotake” (Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down) which was translated as Sitting Bull; William Frederick Cody was friend with both and was nicknamed “Buffalo Bill” after his contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with Buffalo meat.
Andre von Morisse is a conceptual painter, interested in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. His works were featured in many group shows in galleries and museums in the US: Kunstnerenes Hus Oslo, Norway; The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Museum of Southwest Texas, Midland, TX ; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. In 2005, Von Morisse was the recipient of the Best New Contemporary Artists Award 2005, at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Von Morisse work is held in prominent museum and private collections in the United States.
