Unidentified Man
n.d.
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.2 × 22.4 cm (6 × 8 13/16 in.) sheet: 20.4 × 25.3 cm (8 1/16 × 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
2016.22.289
Art Historical Context
Andy Warhol's *Unidentified Man* is a captivating gelatin silver print a classic black-and-white photographic process that captures fine tonal gradations and sharp details. Measuring just 15.2 × 22.4 cm, this undated image exemplifies Warhol's lesser-known but prolific photographic practice. Best known as a Pop Art icon for his vibrant silkscreen portraits of like Marilyn Monroe and his iconic Campbell's Soup cans, Warhol was also an avid photographer, snapping thousands of images that often served as source material for his paintings and films. Created in Warhol's signature observational sty...
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 ...