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Andy Warhol Museum

LC control no.n 94022285
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Corporate name headingAndy Warhol Museum
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Beginning date1994-05
LocatedPittsburgh (Pa.)
Found inThe Andy Warhol Museum, 1994: CIP t.p. (Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh)
Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, 2015: colophon (The Andy Warhol Museum)
The Warhol website, via WWW, April 12, 2016 (The Andy Warhol Museum is the global keeper of Andy Warhol's legacy; the collection includes 900 paintings; approximately 100 sculptures; nearly 2,000 works on paper; more than 1,000 published and unique prints; and 4,000 photographs; the collection also features wallpaper and books by Warhol, covering the entire range of his work from all periods, and includes student work from the 1940s, 1950s drawings, commercial illustrations and sketchbooks; 1960s Pop paintings of consumer products (Campbell's Soup Cans), celebrities (Liz, Jackie, Marilyn, Elvis), Disasters and Electric Chairs; portrait paintings (Mao), Skull paintings and the abstract Oxidations from the 1970s; and works from the 1980s such as The Last Supper, Raphael I-6.99 and collaborative paintings made with younger artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente; drawings by Warhol's mother Julia Warhola are also included in the art collection; the archives consist mainly of Warhol's papers and other materials from his estate; the film & video collection includes 60 feature films, 200 of Warhol's Screen Tests, and more than 4,000 videos; the Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; the museum opened its doors in May 1994)
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