Nothing Happened In The U.S. Before Warhol. For Real?

“Sara Friedlander, the 27-year-old head of First Open Sale at Christie’s in New York, has a startling view of American art history. … There was, in this view, no American Titian or Picasso, Raphael or Matisse. And then, suddenly, on July 9th 1962, there was. That was the date of the first solo show by Andy Warhol.”