You know who this is for. The friend with a soup can somewhere in the kitchen that is not for eating, or the teenager who draws a three-pointed crown on everything they own. They like art that is loud, quick to read and a little cheeky.
That taste is easy to shop for and easy to shop for badly, because these images are printed on everything. Museum shops are a safer bet: the goods are licensed by the artists' estates and foundations, and in several cases the shop is selling its own museum's painting.
We picked 15 from 6 museum shops and grouped them by artist. Strictly speaking, Basquiat and Haring came a generation after Pop Art and belong to the downtown New York scene of the 1980s, but they sit on the same shelf in every shop, so they are here too.
Warhol showed his Campbell's Soup Cans in 1962, and the banana arrived in 1967 on the cover of the first Velvet Underground album. Most Warhol gifts still come down to one or the other.
The 1967 banana on a Limoges porcelain plate, 21 cm across (a little over 8 inches), made in France by Ligne Blanche Paris. The Whitney's page gives no care instructions, so treat it as a plate for the wall or the dresser and not for Tuesday's pasta.
A paint-by-number soup can: an 8 by 10 inch canvas, six acrylic paints, two brushes, a wooden easel and a color guide. Warhol made paintings about paint-by-number kits in 1962, so this is closer to the source than it looks. An easy afternoon for an adult or an older child.
Warhol's own book, first published in 1975: a loose, deadpan autobiography in 272 paperback pages, with chapters on love, beauty, fame, work and money. It is funnier than people expect, and short enough that the recipient will read it.
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960, and the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney both have real ties to his work. Two of these picks come from paintings and exhibitions that belong to the shop selling them.
Hollywood Africans, painted in 1983 during a stay in Los Angeles, is in the Whitney's collection, and this ceramic mug is sold only by the Whitney's shop. It measures about 3.75 by 3 inches and is made with the New York brand Rome Pays Off. Hand wash only, and keep it out of the microwave.
Back of the Neck, Basquiat's 1983 print, as a 24 by 36 inch poster on heavy silk-finish stock. It shows a neck, spine and arm, labeled like a page from an anatomy textbook, with his gold crown added. No frame is mentioned, so plan to buy one.
Bird on Money, Basquiat's tribute to the saxophonist Charlie Parker, as a 500-piece puzzle that finishes at 14 by 18.5 inches. It comes in a box shaped like a book, with a magnetic closure, so it can live on a shelf afterwards.
The book of the exhibition the Brooklyn Museum organized in 2015. A 246-page hardcover from Skira Rizzoli that reproduces more than 150 pages of Basquiat's notebooks: handwritten poems, notes, crowns and sketches. The pick for someone who already owns the T-shirt.
Haring opened his Pop Shop in downtown New York in 1986 because he wanted his art to be something anyone could afford. Gifts are very much in the spirit of the thing.
The officially licensed pop-up book, published in 2024: a hardcover with eight spreads that rise off the page and open flat to 11 by 17 inches. The Pop Shop grid, the Houston Street mural and Silence=Death are all in there. Paper engineering is fragile, so it is for careful hands.
Five round rubber coasters, 4 inches across, printed with Haring's figures and inspired by his Pop Shop. They are non-slip and wipe clean with a damp cloth. A good host gift, and hard to break in the mail.
In July 1985 Haring painted a 15-meter mural at Louisiana in Denmark in two days, with no sketches. This anniversary poster reprints the one made from it, in A2 size (42 by 59.4 cm) on matte 170 gsm paper. The frame is sold separately, and the price is in Danish kroner.
Brad Gooch's biography, a 512-page hardcover built on Haring's own archive and on interviews with the people who knew him. It follows him from the chalk drawings in the subway to his death in 1990. A serious read, and a heavy one to carry.
Lichtenstein is the one with the comic-book panels and the printer's dots. Robert Indiana gave Pop its most borrowed word.
Lichtenstein's Finger Pointing on a skateboard deck by The Skateroom, made with LACMA: an 8 by 31 inch board in seven-ply Canadian maple. It is an open edition and comes with a certificate of authenticity and a wall mount, which tells you where most of them end up.
Figures in Landscape, from 1977, is in Louisiana's own collection, and this is the museum's poster of it: 100 by 70 cm on 200 g paper. A later, stranger Lichtenstein than the comic panels. Framed copies ship only within Denmark, so order it unframed. The price is in Danish kroner.
A 32-page paperback coloring book, roughly 9 by 11 inches, that the shop suggests for ages six to nine. Lichtenstein's heavy black outlines were made for this. Whether anyone fills in the dots one at a time is between them and their felt-tips.
Robert Indiana's LOVE, from 1966, on an oversized tote in heavyweight stone-colored cotton canvas. The main compartment is about 17 by 18 inches, lined in cotton poplin, with a zipped pocket inside and webbed handles. Made by Rome Pays Off. Spot clean only.
We read the public catalogs of the museum shops. Nobody paid to be on this list, and no brand sent us samples: we have not handled these items ourselves. Sizes and materials come from each shop's own product page, which is also where you buy.
Prices can change and items sell out. When a pick is no longer listed by its shop, it drops off this page.
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