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Andy Warhol 's Book Of Etiquette

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Andy Warhol was born August 6th 1928, in Forest City, Pennsylvania. His family comes from the Austria-Hungary Empire. His father came over from there in 1912 and then sent for his mother to come over here in 1921. Andy graduated from High School in 1945 from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, PA. He then went onto college and graduated in 1949 from Carnegie-Mellon University. He moved to New York City after college, where he met Tina Fredericks who was an art editor for Glamour magazine. He was able to get a job drawing advertisements for Glamour and also selling women’s shoes. This led to other jobs of drawing advertisements for other company’s such as Vogue, Harpers, Bazzar, book jackets and he also drew holiday greeting cards. In the 1952 he got his first solo art exhibit. It was held at the Hugo Gallery in New York. His drawings were illustrations for stories that Truman Capote wrote. This led him to start illustrating books for other writers as well. Like Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette. In 1956 he traveled with Charles Lisanby who was a television-set designer. In that same year he was included in his first group exhibition. It was called Recent Drawings USA and it was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After all this time and work Andy started to receive awards for his hard work that he was putting in. One of the first awards that he won was the 35th Annual Art Directors Club, for Distinctive Merit for an I. Miller shoe

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