Andy Warhol: Snapshots

The more than fifty photographs in this exhibition represent two intertwined aspects of Andy Warhol’s career: his art making and the whirlwind of his celebrity-studded private life. They date to the 1970s and 1980s, between the time Warhol first established his success as a Pop artist in the sixties decade and his untimely death in 1987 at the age of fifty-nine. This exhibition contains the two main types of photographs that Warhol took: Polaroids, depicting celebrities, socialites, acquaintances of Warhol, and those who could afford to pay a large sum to have the famed Pop artist paint their portrait; and eight-by-ten black-and-white prints; recording aspects of Warhol’s everyday activities. These images have been selected from an extraordinary gift of over one hundred and fifty photographs given to the Neuberger Museum of Art by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The gift was part of an unprecedented donation of Warhol’s art to college and university art museums across the United States, made through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in honor of the Foundation’s 20th anniversary. Andy Warhol: Snapshots is on view February 15-May 17, 2009. Join us for Warhol Thursdays: the Museum will remain open from 5-8 pm Thursday evenings, Feb 26-Apr 23, free of charge. Exhibition support is provided by Helen Stambler Neuberger and Jim Neuberger. Andy Warhol: Snaphots is organized by Michael Lobel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of the M.A. Program in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory, Purchase College, State University of New York.