Warhol Masterpieces to Come to GW

A little bit of pop art is on its way to GW. GW’s own Luther W. Brady art gallery, located on the second floor of the SMPA building, will soon receive about 150 original Andy Warhol photograph to add to its collection.

The works that will be given to GW are part of nearly 30,000 original Warhol photographs worth more than $28 million. GW was chosen by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, along with 183 other colleges and universities.

Andy Warhol was a central figure in the American pop art movement. He achieved fame as a painter, photographer, avant-garde filmmaker, author and public figure from the 1960s to his death in 1987. His dying wish was to leave his legacy for the advancement of the visual arts. Since his death, Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor have become ingrained into American culture.

- Shawn Willis