Actor / Producer

Andy Warhol

August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987

Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andrew Warhola Jr. was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.