Featuring Andre von Morisse, Three Amigos

POP! Goes The West

24 May 2025 - 25 January 2026

All Photos taken with permission at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming.

Andre von Morisse, Three Amigos (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull), 2024, triptych oil on canvas, 24 x 22 in. each.

Andre von Morisse continues his exploration of iconic figures in history focusing on the American West with his Three Amigos (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull) 2024, featured at The Buffalo Bill Center of The West, Whitney Western Art Museum Special Exhibition, POP! Goes The West.

Andre von Morisse, Three Amigos (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull) (The Inability of Meeting Someone Famous Objectively), 2024, Oil on Canvas, each 24 x 22 in.

Three Amigos (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull), 2024

Andre Von Morisse, triptych titled: Three Amigos (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 full names of each amigo: Annie Oakley’s real name was Phoebe Ann Moses. Her stage name was, Annie Oakley. 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 young 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.

Labeled “The painter of Pop Surrealism” by Widewalls Magazine in 2013, Andre Von Morisse is an American Conceptual Painter (b.1966, Oslo, Norway). Von Morisse work is held in prominent museum and private collections in the United States.

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Bloomberg Connects

Explore Highlights of the exhibition on Bloomberg Connects with audio files and interviews about the art and artists at POP! Goes the west!

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Artist Andre Von Morisse speaks about his work “Three Amigos”

ANDRE VON MORISSE Speaks about Three Amigos

Artists in the Exhibition

Neil Ambrose-Smith - Earl Biss - 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

Pop! Goes the West

A Special Exhibition, Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, May 24, 2025 – January 25, 2026

Pop Art meets the West

Explore the compelling intersections between popular culture and the American West through the Whitney Western Art Museum’s newest exhibition, POP! Goes the West, opening at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West on May 24, 2025. Surround yourself with the iconic work of Andy Warhol and other artists who combine the styles and attitudes of the Pop Art movement with western subject matter. POP! features eye-catching artwork with bright colors and bold designs. Artists depict a West that is both familiar and unexpected, filled with Indians and cowgirls, wildlife and highways, horses and pickup trucks, cell phones and tourists, along with lariats, guns, geysers, and more. By poking at stereotypes and weaving personal stories into histories, Pop artists reveal more complex–and realistic depictions–of the Old and New West.

POP! Goes The West

Andre Von Morisse Website

Andre von Morisse photographed by his wife Silas Shabelewska