ANDY WARHOL – FROM “THE HOUSE THAT WENT TO TOWN”
2019-07-29In the early 1950s, Andy Warhol collaborated with the young author Ralph Thomas (Corkie) Ward on a small number of illustrated and self-published books. Their first joint publication was “A Is an Alphabet” from 1953, a collection of 26 loose pages that combine a silhouette by Warhol with a verse by Corkie. Each of Corkie’s texts describe an encounter between an animal, whose name begins with the letter of the alphabet to which it is assigned, and a human figure (or pair of figures) drawn by Warhol on the top half of the sheet.
Warhol executed his drawings in the blotted line technique, which had become his first signature style and with which he made a name for himself as an illustrator within the New York publishing world.
Opposite – Kissing Couple, ca. 1954
Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2019
Galerie Buchholz
17 East 82nd Street
NY 10028 New York
USA
