Andy Warhol Prints

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and from a young age showed an interest in, and talent for, painting, culminating in his enrolment at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His interest in illustration saw Warhol relocate to New York in 1949 where he worked as an illustrator for publications such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Although featuring in small exhibitions in New York in the 1950s, it was not until the 60s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American objects such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, as well as celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, for which he is most famous for today.

These sowed the seeds of the Pop Art movement - an experimental form that several artists were increasingly independently adopting. His contemporary Roy Lichtenstein used cartoons whilst Jasper Johns focused on typography, inspiring Warhol to define his niche. He worked intensively on finding his signature style and in doing so veered away from the intricate illustrations he started with, and moved towards colour-blocked silk-screening prints.

In the collection of Andy Warhol prints below you will find a compilation of his earlier intricate illustrations as well as his notable Pop Art prints.