Joseph Beuys
1980/1983
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screenprint in black with rayon flocking on blue Lenox Museum Board
Dimensions
sheet: 101.6 × 81.28 cm (40 × 32 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)
Accession Number
2015.143.1403
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 ...