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The Collection

Eleven Mao portraits in different colors hanging on a wall wallpapered with purple Mao portraits.

Fourth floor Mao installation

Fourth floor Mao installation

We are the global resource for Warhol artworks and archival materials, and you’ll always see something different each time you visit the museum.

The museum’s art collection includes 900 paintings; approximately 100 sculptures; nearly 2,000 works on paper; more than 1,000 published and unique prints; and 4,000 photographs. The collection also features Warhol wallpaper and books.

Some of the most notable artworks include 1960s pop art paintings of consumer products, including Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coke, and celebrities portraits of stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley; 1960s series, such as Death and Disaster, Mao, and abstract Oxidations; and works from the 1980s, including The Last Supper and collaborative paintings made with younger artists, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

Drawings made by Warhol’s mother, Julia Warhola, are also included in the art collection.

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Image Gallery

A hand-painted reproduction of a crushed Campbell's beef noodle soup can.

Andy Warhol, Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle), 1962
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.
1998.1.30

A young woman with short blonde hair gazes into the camera, her plump lips slightly parted. She sits against a light background, and her shadow falls to the left side of the image.

Andy Warhol, Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick [ST308], 1965
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
1997.4.113.308

A portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat has been printed overtop a canvas covered in copper paint. The right side of the image is splattered with green patches of oxidation.

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, ca. 1982
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.
1998.1.499

Four simple, five-petaled flowers are printed against a vibrant green background of grass. The flowers on the left side of the image are purple on the top and blue on the bottom, and on the right they are hot pink on the top and red on the bottom.

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 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.
1998.1.25

Wearing a black sweatshirt and turning away from the camera, Andy Warhol signs someone's leg on an episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes. The leg is clad in yellow pants with large, organic blocks of other bright colors, including hot pink, red, and green.

Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes [episode 1], 1986
1” videotape, color, sound, 30 minutes
©2017 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

An abstract sketch of two female figures in the doorway of a stone buildings. The figures are not given detail and almost appear to be melting. There is a potted plant on a small stand beside the door.

Andy Warhol, Produce seller and female at front door, 1946
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.
1998.1.1619

A painting of sailboats mimicking a paint-by-numbers activity. The sky has been filled in deep blue and some of the large bank of fluffy clouds behind the boats have been filled in periwinkle, pale pink, and bubblegum pink. Some detail has also been added to one of the sailboats, but the rest of the image has been divided into sections and marked with small black numbers.

Andy Warhol, Do It Yourself (Sailboats), 1962
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Museum Purchase, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., and Dia Center for the Arts, by exchange
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
2016.4

A grainy black and white image of the top of the Empire State building, illuminated in the dusk.

Andy Warhol, Empire, 1964
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
1997.4.40

A screen print of a pink skull on a green surface. The shadow the skull is overlaid with yellow.

Andy Warhol, Skull, 1976
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution Dia Center for the Arts
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
2002.4.24

Film + Video

The Andy Warhol Museum is home to over 400 Warhol films, from the early minimal masterpieces Sleep and Blow Job to the later epic work The Chelsea Girls along with the short portraits known collectively as Screen Tests. The museum also houses the entire Andy Warhol Video Collection – over 2500 videotapes which include all episodes and outtakes of his television series Fashion, Andy Warhol’s T.V., and Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes, the soap operas Vivian’s Girls, Phoney, and Fight, and the large body of work known as Factory Diaries.

The film and video collection is critical to understanding the artist Andy Warhol. From the time he obtained his first film camera in 1963 until his death in 1987, Warhol actively explored the moving image, creating epic films, personal portraits, cable television shows, and music videos. His films and video capture the rich and raw texture of the fertile cultural milieu in which he lived and worked.

Image Gallery

A somewhat abstract black and white film still, in which a nose and lips can be seen through a magnifying lens, and a syringe is being held in two hands

Andy Warhol, Hedy, 1966
Pictured: Mario Montez
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Two images side-by-side; a red closeup of a man with long hair on the left, looking towards the right; on the right a group of people illuminated by red and blue spotlights

Andy Warhol, The Chelsea Girls, 1966
Pictured: Ingrid Superstar, Angelina “Pepper” Davis, Susan Bottomly, Eric Emerson, George Millaway
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

A grainy photograph of two guitar players and a violinist, with the figure of the photographer reflected in a nearby window

Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground in Boston, 1967
Pictured: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Black and white film still close-up of Candy Darling holding a phone to her ear

Andy Warhol, Phoney, 1973
Pictured: Candy Darling
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Andy Warhol holding a microphone and speaking while looking directly into camera
A man kneeling over the edge of a large canvas painting blue eye shadow onto a portrait
Video still of Divine looking at herself in a pocket mirror, next to John Water who is smiling and holding a cigarette

Andy Warhol's T.V. [season 1, episode 8], 1981
Pictured: Divine, John Waters
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Jean-Michel Basquiat faces forward and smiles as Andy Warhol drapes his arm over his shoulders and looks at him

Andy Warhol's T.V. [season 2, episode 9], 1983
Pictured: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Video still from intro sequence to Andy Warhol's Fifteen minutes, with alternating images of Andy Warhol and Grace Jones underneath the show's title

Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes [episode 2], 1987
Pictured: Grace Jones, Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

The museum

The museum’s collection includes works from the artist’s entire artistic output—from 1940s student work to 1980s collaborations. Our seven-story museum devotes four floors to showcasing an ever-changing selection of Warhol’s artwork, as well as features a permanent film and video gallery for viewing individual Warhol films and videos. One floor is devoted to the museum’s archives collection, and another is reserved for rotating exhibitions of deep dives into the museum’s collection or showcasing contemporary artists that resonate with Warhol. The ground floor continuously shows Fifteen Minutes Eternal, a twenty-minute introductory film, and the underground includes The Factory education studio and the museum’s conservation lab.