Pittsburgh - North Shore: Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen of (clockwise from top left): Tom Seaver (1977), Victor Hugo (1978), Mike Walsh (n.d.) and MArella Agnelli (1973)
The Andy Warhol Museum opened in a renovated industrial warehouse at 117 Sandusky Street on May 13, 1994. The museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA), is the largest in the United States dedicated to a single artist. It holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh native and pop art icon, Andy Warhol.
The museum is located in an 88,000-square-foot facility that formerly belonged to the Volkwein Music Company and the Frick & Lindsay Company, spread across seven floors with 17 galleries and 900 paintings, close to 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, 77 sculptures, and 4,000 photographs.
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