Portraits of the Artists
1967
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View on museum website →Medium
screenprints in black on colored polystyrene boxes
Dimensions
each (one box): 5.08 × 5.08 × 1.91 cm (2 × 2 × 3/4 in.) overall (100 boxes): 51 × 51 × 1.9 cm (20 1/16 × 20 1/16 × 3/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
2006.126.9
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 ...