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Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol as a teenager, photographed at a professional studio, wearing a dark colored sweater and light colored dress shirt

John Warhola, Andy Warhol on the day before he started college, photographed by his brother John in the photo studio that he operated with their cousin John Preksta, September 1945, 1945
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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A photograph of Andy Warhol as a young man, shown here in profile. He faces the right side of the image, and the photograph has been affixed to a plain white piece of paper using a thick ring of gold leaf.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, ca. 1957
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.2051

Andy Warhol wears dark sunglasses and tilts his head to the right side of the image. He is wearing a coat, under which a dress shirt and loose tie are visible. Originally a photograph, the image has been printed onto canvas painted turquoise blue.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1963-1964
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.810

Four black and white photographs arranged in a column, all of which show Andy Warhol dressed in dark sunglasses and a white polo shirt being punched from different angles by the arms of a man not in the frame.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Being Punched), 1963-1964
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.2744

A screen printed self portrait of Andy Warhol, holding the fingers of one hand to his lips. Red shadow overtakes much of his otherwise green face. Part of his hair is highlighted in blue, and part of his collar in gold.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1966-1967
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.808

Two vertically stacked photographs of Andy Warhol wearing dark sunglasses, a coat, and a dress shirt with a tie. In the top image, his hand is raised to his chest, and in the bottom it is not in the frame.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1978
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.2629

A 3/4 view portrait of Andy Warhol, facing the left side of the image. The portrait is red ink on off-white paper.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1967
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.2314

A photograph of Andy Warhol wearing large, round glasses and a black turtleneck that blends in with the black background. His white wig is tossed and hair sticks out in all directions.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Fright Wig), 1986
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.2890

Explore Andy Warhol’s life—from his Pittsburgh roots to his career in New York City.

Andy Warhol's Life

Early Life

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in a two-room apartment at 73 Orr Street in a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Julia Warhol, a thin woman wearing a white hat and dark fur coat, poses with two of her sons. On the left side of the image is John, a school-aged child, wearing a suit and tie. On the right, sitting on Julia's lap, is Andy Warhol, at this point a blonde haired toddler wearing a heavy grey coat.

Unknown, Julia, John, and Andy Warhola, 1932
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.3.5247

1950s

After graduating from art school with a degree in pictorial design, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist, and he dropped the final “a” in Warhola.

A young Andy Warhol stands outdoors with two other people alongside a railing.

Andy Warhol (right) with classmates Philip Pearlstein and Joan Kramer, visiting Rockefeller Center, ca. 1948
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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1960s

In 1960, Warhol turned his attention to the pop art movement, which began in Britain in the mid-1950s.

A black Coca-Cola bottle sits on the left side of the image, beside a thin grey, cross-hatched block that runs up the left side of the page. The right side of the image is mostly occupied by a similar grey, cross-hatched block which becomes solid black near the top. The beginning of the word Coca-cola is also visible here, disappearing behind the bar on the right of the image.

Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [2], 1961
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution Dia Center for the Arts
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1997.1.20

1970s

Warhol became increasingly involved in publishing in the late 1960s, becoming fully immersed in the 1970s.

1969 cover of the first issue of Interview: a monthly film journal.

Interview - Vol. 1, no. 1 (1969), 1969
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© Brant Publications, Inc.
1998.3.6318.1

1980s

Throughout his career, Warhol frequently collaborated with artists, and in 1984 he worked with young artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, and Keith Haring.

Andy Warhol's blue face stares intently out of a dark background in this print, his hair spiked up dramatically.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.814

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.

Andy Warhol, The East Village Other, 1966