Postcard to Barbara Eisenberg
Andy Warhol
1949
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View on museum website →Medium
brush and black ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 8.3 x 14 cm (3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1492
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 ...