The Largest Collection Of Warhol Art & Archives - The Andy Warhol Museum

The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is the home to more than 500,000 objects related to the artist. The Andy Warhol Museum was co-founded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Dia Art Foundation, and Carnegie Institute in 1989.

Architect Richard Gluckman was chosen to convert the 1911 industrial building into a state-of-the-art space occupying eight floors where Warhol’s art, films, videos, and archives can be properly preserved, closely examined, creatively exhibited, and better understood by a wider audience. Shedding light on Warhol’s intense productivity, from the late 1940s through 1987.

There are special galleries spotlight his extraordinary fixation on the moving image, represented by roughly 500 experimental films and more than 2,500 videos, including his TV talk shows and Factory Diaries—unedited footage of everyday life at his studio.

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Architect Richard Gluckman was chosen to convert this 1911 industrial building into a state-of-the-art space.

In the lobby of the museum.

This shows six panels from the Jackie Kennedy series. Following President Kennedy’s assassination, Warhol found inspiration in the mass media coverage of the event.

Images show the 1986 bold color silkscreen print of French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel.

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Warhol’s “Self Portrait (Camouflage)’ from 1986.

“Untitled (Elephant)” by Keith Haring from 1985. It was painted by Andy Warhol’s request.

This drawing is titled “Nosepicker I: Why Pick on Me”, created around 1948.

“Marilyn Diptych” created after Monroe’s death in 1962.

This museum is considered the largest repository of Warhol’s artwork and archival materials and among the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world.

“Hamburger” was created between 1985 and 1986.

“Female Head”

From the “Skull” series created in 1976.

Judy Garland

The cover art for “The Velvet Underground & Nico” designed in 1967.

“Ten Punching Bags (The Last Supper)” created in 1985 by Jean-Micheal Basquiat was never shown while either artist was still alive.

Warhol was an obsessive collector, he amassed a collection including paintings, lamps, contemporary glassware, rococo furniture, cookie jars, periodicals, press clippings, posters, photos, and other ephemera.

“Natalie” from 1962

“Self Portrait”, done in 1978 and portrait of his mother, Julia Warhola, done in 1974.

“Self Portrait” from 1966

A sample of the collection of Keith Haring memorabilia.

“Jackie Kennedy”

A recreation of the 1966 “Silver Clouds” which consisted of a room full of floating metallic balloons.

Acclaimed works to lesser-known pieces are presented here to the public for the first time.

Elvis Presley

Warhol’s multi-dimensional creativity can be traced from the drawings he made while studying pictorial design at Carnegie Tech and the commercial illustrations he produced for Madison Avenue, to his groundbreaking Pop Art experiments with photographic silk-screens and innovations in portraiture, to his later collaborations with fellow artists and radical innovations in abstraction.

Martha Graham, 1980

Mona Lisa, 1963

Camouflage Self Portrait, 1986

What you should know:

• There is an admission charge which can be purchased online or in person.

• There is a reduced rate parking lot across the street or there is on the street metered parking too.

• The museum is self-guided.

• There are seven floors of exhibits.

• Check website for days and hours of operation and any special events.

• You could spend a couple of hours here, depending on your level of interest.

• There are public restroom.

Location: 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

For more information: The Warhol Museum

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