#Star of the silver screen movie

The exhibition on the museum’s second floor features celebrity drawings and Pop portraits, including Grace Kelly, Elvis Presley, Jane Fonda, and many others. Part of Warhol’s Pop style had its genesis in images of the stars, and this exhibition examines some of the inspiration behind the work that kick-started the current age of global celebrity culture. Artworks on display include paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, publications, film excerpts, television episodes, and video diaries. The hundreds of archival objects from The Warhol’s collection on view range from the artist’s celebrity scrapbooks and Hollywood film posters to magazines and souvenirs.

#Star of the silver screen movie

This practice continued throughout his life, and he eventually accumulated a profusion of photographs, movie posters, and other memorabilia.

As a child, Warhol wrote to Hollywood studios for fan photos and enjoyed movie magazines, surrounding himself with celebrity images. Warhol’s lifelong infatuation with fame can be traced from his earliest movie star scrapbook he started when he was a young boy to a Frank Sinatra biography that was on his hospital bedside table when he died in 1987. He reveled in the glamorous actors, elegant costumes, and sophisticated settings of movies from Hollywood’s golden era. Warhol’s interest in celebrity and Hollywood stars was ignited while attending cinemas with his older brothers in gritty, industrial 1930s Pittsburgh. The exhibition explores Andy Warhol’s fascination with Hollywood, fame, and stardom through artworks and hundreds of archival objects from The Warhol’s vast collection of the artist’s personal items. The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen, opening June 16, 2017.