Andy Warhol at ASU Art Museum
The Arizona State University Art
Museum is the recipient of six
new works by artist Andy Warhol,
a gift from the Andy Warhol
foundation for the Visual Arts.
These original Warhol screenprints will be on view in the lobby of the ASU Art Museum beginning May 27, 2014.
“That the Warhol Foundation recognizes the value of university and college art museums like ours is both a tremendous honor and a reflection on the Foundation’s thoughtful work,” says ASU Art Museum Director Gordon Knox. “We are overjoyed to be the recipient of these prints and to share and explore Warhol’s work with our university audience and the Phoenix community.”
The gifted prints themselves are rare examples of works that Warhol did not necessarily intend to share with the public. “In the development of an image toward printing a uniform edition, Warhol would experiment with both color and compositional elements, creating many variations of prints outside the final, editioned image,” says Jean Makin, ASU Art Museum print collection manager and curator. “These ‘outside edition’ prints were often not signed. Warhol gave some away to friends or clients, but he kept most of them.”
“This addition to the ASU Art Museum’s print holdings only further strengthens the museum’s ability to be a valuable resource to students, professors and scholars,” Makin continues. “Viewing unique works like these screenprints is an educational experience that brings a physical reality to study and research.”
The Warhol prints join the ASU Art Museum’s collection of more than 5,000 prints.
The collection is held in the museum's Jules Heller Print Study Room, which provides a secure environment for care and storage while also being an accessible resource for research and viewing by students, scholars andgeneral visitors. More than 600 students visit the Jules Heller Print Study Room each year to closely examine and study selections from the collection.
The Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts
