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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 ...

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