Andy Warhol was born on August 6th, 1928 (died February 22nd, 1987), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg. In 1949, Warhol moved to New York to work in magazine illustration and advertising. He eventually took a job with RCA records designing album covers and promotional materials. Warhol's first one-man show was at the Ferris Gallery in Los Angeles in 1962. There, he showed the now famous 32 Campbell's Soup Cans. That same year he exhibited at Stable Gallery in New York, where he showed 100 Coke Bottles, 100 Dollar Bills, 100 Soup Cans, and the Marylin Diptych. Perhaps the most famous artist of the Pop movement, Warhol was a fim maker, print maker, and painter who's work questioned American consumerism, death, celebrity, mass advertising and reproduction among other themes.
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