Illustrations by the artist, commissioned for The Times in 1962, were sculpted on spuds before being stamped onto paper.

Narrator: Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1928. As a child, he sometimes missed school due to illness and spent the time reading comics. He took free art classes and eventually went to ...

Andy Warhol spent much of his early life reading comics and magazines. This popular culture crept into his later artworks, turning him into the “poster boy for pop art”. Helen Bauer ...

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, artist and cultural provocateur Andy Warhol reveled in challenging traditional conceptions of fine art. Following his success in the 1950s as a graphic artist ...