Richard HamiltonEnglish, 1922–2011Adonis in Y Fronts
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Adonis in Y Fronts” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 278.2004
In the catalog
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- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Richard Hamilton
The whole life1950–2010 · Workplace
Solingen
1957–1961
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
During these years he is very active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and produces a work parodying the Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell for rejecting a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
1957–1961
Teaches at the Royal College of Art
He teaches at the Royal College of Art from 1957 to 1961, where he promotes David Hockney and Peter Blake.
early 1960s
Rescuing Schwitters’s Merzbau
In the early 1960s he receives an Arts Council grant to investigate the condition of Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau in Cumbria; the research eventually leads him to organize the work’s preservation by relocating it to the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University.
1962
Death of his first wife Terry
His first wife Terry is killed in a car accident.
1963
First trip to the US: Duchamp in Pasadena
Partly to recover from his loss, he travels to the United States for the first time for a retrospective of Marcel Duchamp’s work at the Pasadena Art Museum, where he meets other leading pop artists and is befriended by Duchamp.
