Sample of Institutions Holdings of the Artist:        

Andy Warhol Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
 J. Paul Getty Museum
Andy Warhol at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) American

Mr. Warhol was born as Andrej Varchola on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Warhol was an American painter, film-maker, publisher and window displayer and was a major figure in the pop art movement. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, upon graduating in 1949 he moved to New York City. He began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. He was introduced to Mr. Neal Prince, Herbert Hemphill, Jr., Robert Galster and Gilbert Ireland during Mr. Prince’s and Mr. Hemphill’s well received cocktail parties in the 1950’s. Mr. Warhol was introduced to American Folk Art Collecting through Mr. Hemphill, Jr. through their introductions. With time, they tried to out do each other with their collections. He became well-known mainly for his whimsical ink drawings of shoes done in a loose, blotted style. In the 1960's, he started to make paintings of famous American products like Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola. He switched to silkscreen prints, seeking not only to make art of mass produced items, but to mass produce the art itself. He hired and supervised "Art workers" engaged in making prints, shoes, films and other items at his studio, referred to as The Factory, located at 221 East 47th Street from 1963-1967. He than moved the Studio to 33 Union Square West at the end of 1967 in New York City. In the 1970's and 1980's he mainly made prints of famous people such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley. Iconic figures and famous people are a general theme in Warhol's work. He also started the "Interview" fashion magazine and worked on several television projects. On February 22, 1987, Mr. Warhol died from a non-threatening gall bladder operation from complications arose from that procedure.