The Andy Warhol Museum in his native Pittsburgh is under the umbrella of Carnegie’s museums. Visitors start at the top floor of the building and work their way down six floors of galleries from his early life in New York after he graduated from Carnegie Tech all the way to his death.
Warhol started to use silkscreen on linen in 1961 when he was drawn to Pop Art. This was the same method used to make his famous Campbell Soup paintings. The paint pushed through the silkscreen creates the iconic little dots. He gets credit for the artistic rendering of an image printed through silkscreen, but credit for the original photos is nowhere to be found.
In the following decade, Warhol did a lot of privately commissioned portraits to fill up his bank account. He even did a series of fourteen portraits for taxidermied pets. Tactile boards on every floor help visually impaired people picture his works by touch.
