Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987)

VOTE MCGOVERN, 1972

screenprint on Arches 88 paper

106.5 x 106.5 cm
124.5 x 124.5 cm (frame)

edition: 14/250
signed and numbered in ballpoint verso : 14/250 Andy Warhol
published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with chop mark lower right
bears stamp verso: © Copyright 1972 Andy Warhol
inscribed with workshop number in pencil verso: AW72 5046 

Private collection
Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 2004, lot 402
Private collection, Sydney

The Artist as Social Critic, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 10 May – 19 October 1986 (another example)
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 31 January – 19 April 1988 (another example)
Opening Exhibition, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, opened 13 May 1994 (another example)
Andy Warhol: Social Observer, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 17 June – September 2000, and touring, cat. 40 (another example)
MoMA2000, Open Ends: Minimalism and After, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 September 2000 – 4 March 2001 (another example)
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, 1 February – 29 April 2001 (another example)
Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 4 November 2001 – 21 January 2002 (another example)
Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 15 November 2012 – 31 March 2013 (another example)
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1 May – 27 September 2015 (another example)
The American Dream: Pop to the Present, British Museum, London, 9 March – 18 June 2017, and touring internationally 2018 – 2021 (another example)
Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 12 November 2018 – 31 March 2019 (another example)

Warhol, A. and Hackett, P. (ed.), The Andy Warhol Diaries, Warner Books, New York, 1989, p. 538
Feldman, F., and Schellmann, J., Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 – 1987, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, third edition, 1997, cat. II.84, pp. 10 (illus., another example), 28, 76 (illus., another example), 267, 277, 278
Blazwick, I., Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate, London, 2001, pp. 124, 125 (illus., another example), 285
Jones, J., ‘Portrait of the Week: Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol (Vote McGovern), 1972,’ The Guardian, 10 February 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/feb/10/art.warhol [accessed April 2025]
Powers, E., ‘Third-Party Politics: Andy Warhol’s “Vote McGovern” (1972),’ Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 75 (3), 2012, pp. 391 – 416
Cherix, C., Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 24
Coppel, S., Daunt, C., and Tallman, S., The American Dream: pop to the present, Thames and Hudson, London, 2017, cat. 139
Wolf, R. (ed.), Translating Warhol, Bloomsbury, New York, 2024, p. 207 (illus., another example)

Other editions of this work are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the British Museum, London, the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra