Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
MARILYN, 1979/1986
Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas

Andy Warhol, along with Picasso, is perhaps the best-known, and most influential artist of the twentieth-century. A Pop Artist, Warhol gleaned his subject matter from mass culture Campbell's Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrity headshots and his painting techniques, most notably his use of silkscreen, from commercial, serial reproduction processes. Warhol had an uncanny, even precocious understanding of how the media shapes our view of people and events, and creates larger-than-life icons such as Marilyn Monroe. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, are but a few institutions that collect his work.