Explore over 50 objects from Time Capsule 21, including photobooth photos, business records, personal notes and cards, record albums, newspaper headlines, and source material for Warhol’s artworks.
Explore over 50 objects from Time Capsule 21, including photobooth photos, business records, personal notes and cards, record albums, newspaper headlines, and source material for Warhol’s artworks.
Full of material dating from the 1950s to the early 1970s, the contents of the box offers a lens to examine the diverse aspects of Warhol’s art and life and the socio-cultural context of his time.
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1963-1964
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.810
Time Capsule 21 is striking in the large amount of Andy Warhol's art and source material it contains from the 1950s and 1960s.
Julia Warhola, Angel Holding a Cross, n.d.
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution Dia Center for the Arts
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
TC21.24
Born in Pittsburgh in 1928, Andy Warhol grew up within the Carpatho‑Rusyn immigrant community, whose culture and Eastern rite Catholicism were passed down by his mother Julia Zavacky Warhola.
Life - Vol. 73, no. 17 (October 27, 1972). The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
TC21.72
Andy Warhol used photography to view and interact with the world throughout his career.
Postcard (to Andy Warhol, n.d.), front view, 1960-1961
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
TC21.8
Vincent Fremont, one of Warhol’s associates, commented that the artist’s mission was to “document everything he came into contact with.” This included preserving a vast amount of his correspondence.
Andy Warhol, Advertisement (Charles of the Ritz antiperspirant deodorant), 1950s-1960s
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
TC21.25
In addition to being a successful artist, Warhol was a successful businessman. After a rather humble childhood, Warhol became possibly the most entrepreneurial artist of his time.