Jon Gould
1980-1985
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.3 × 22 cm (6 × 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)
Accession Number
2016.22.224
Art Historical Context
Andy Warhol’s gelatin silver print “Jon Gould” (1980–1985) offers a quiet glimpse into the artist’s later photographic practice. Although he remains best known for his colorful Pop silkscreens, Warhol was a prolific photographer who carried a camera everywhere, recording friends, studio life, and the New York scene in thousands of black-and-white images. This modest-sized print, measuring just 15 by 22 centimeters, exemplifies the straightforward, snapshot aesthetic he favored in the 1980s. Gelatin silver prints allowed Warhol to work quickly and spontaneously, producing an unpretentious reco...
About the Artist
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola Jr. on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the youngest of three sons to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Ondrej and Julia Warhola. His devout Byzantine Catholic family nurtured his artistic inclinations; bedridden at age eight with Sydenham's chorea, he drew from comic books and Hollywood magazines supplied by his artistic mother Julia, who later influenced ...