Full Name | Andrew Warhola Jr. |
Date of Birth | August 6, 1928 |
Place of Birth | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Date of Death | February 22, 1987 |
Place of Death | New York City, U.S. |
Resting Place | St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania |
Education | Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Artistic Fields | Printmaking, painting, cinema, photography |
Notable Works | Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), Marilyn Diptych (1962), Chelsea Girls (1966 film), Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966 event) |
Art Movements | Pop art, contemporary art |
Signature Style | Pop art |
Famous Studio | The Factory |
Major Contributions | Managed The Velvet Underground, coined “15 Minutes of fame” |
Notable Incident | Shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968 |
Death | Died of cardiac arrhythmia post-gallbladder surgery |
Museum | The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh |
Notable Auctions | Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold for $105 million (2013), Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold for $195 million (2022) |
Parents | Ondrej Warhola (Andrew Warhola Sr.) and Julia Warhola |
Siblings | Two elder brothers: Pavol (Paul) and John |
Ethnicity | Lemko (Eastern European) |
Religion | Ruthenian Catholic |
Early Career | Commercial illustrator in the 1950s |
Books Authored | The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Popism: The Warhol Sixties |
Magazine Founded | Interview |