Art History Animalia

For #FishFriday :

Fish wallpaper at The Warhol Museum

(designed by Andy Warhol in 1983)

#TwoForTuesday:

Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol

Collaboration (#Lice) + Collaboration (#Crab), 1984-85

Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and oil stick on linen

On display at The Andy Warhol Museum 1998.1.489,490

For #BluebirdOfHappinessDay 💙:

Andy Warhol (USA, 1928-1987)

Bluebirds, 1960

India ink & watercolor on paper, 9 5/8 x 7½in

Happy #InternationalTigerDay 🐅!

Andy Warhol (USA, 1928-1987)

Siberian Tiger, from the Endangered Species series, 1983

Color screenprint on Lenox museum board, edition of 150, 38 x 38 in (96.5 x 96.5 cm)

image via https://www.masterworksfineart.com/artists/andy-warhol/screen-print/siberian-tiger-endangered-species-series-1983/id/w-6846 (© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)

From the blog for #WorldSeaTurtleDay :

Andy Warhol’s sea turtle movie promo art!

For #WhoopingCraneDay:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) "Whooping Crane", from the Vanishing Animals series, 1986 Color offset lithograph, 10 7/16 x 10 5/16 in. (265 x 262 mm) Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [educational use]

#WorldBeeDay 🐝:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987)

Flowers & Bees, c.1961

Ink & tempera on Strathmore paper, 29 x 23 in.

For #SaveTheRhinoDay 🦏:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Black Rhinoceros, from the Endangered Species series, 1983 Color Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, edition of 150, 38 x 38 in (96.5 x 96.5 cm)

(Image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)

For #SaveTheFrogsDay 🐸:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)

Pine Barrens Tree Frog (FS II.294), from the Endangered Species portfolio, 1983

Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, Edition of 150, 38 x 38 in. (97 x 97 cm)

Via WikiArt.org (© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)

Happy #WorldOrangutanDay! 🦧

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) "Orangutan" From the Endangered Species series, 1983 (signed & numbered edtion of 150) Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, 38x38 in [Artwork & image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. - educational use]

Warhol selected the orangutan as one of 10 animals for his 1983 Endangered Species series. At the time, there was only one living species recognized. There are now 3 recognized in the genus Pongo, all of which are unfortunately critically endangered: the Bornean Orangutan (P. pygmaeus, w/3 subspecies), the Sumatran Orangutan (P. abelii), and the Tapanuli Orangutan (P tapanuliensis).

Andy #Warhol was born #OTD (6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987). Here’s a unique life-size portrait of Warhol holding his dachshund Archie by his friend Jamie Wyeth, on display at Brandywine Museum of Art:

Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) First in the Screen Door Sequence, 2015 Oil on canvas on honeycomb aluminum support with American folk art "found object" construction of wood, metal, screen & hardware Brandywine Museum of Art

“In some of Jamie Wyeth's more recent work he has begun to cross the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and real life by using objects like doors and windows as the starting point of his compositions. He adds paintings, specialty lighting, and other objects to make what is sometimes called an "assemblage" a collection of things brought together to make a single work of art. First in the Screen Door Sequence is an actual wooden screen door that Wyeth found decorated with patriotic stars and stripes. It was already a piece of American folk art when Wyeth added a painted panel depicting a life-size portrait of Andy Warhol holding his dog Archie.”

For #CowAppreciationDay: Andy Warhol’s cow wallpapers at The Andy Warhol Museum! 🐮

For #AmericanEagleDay / #BaldEagleDay:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Bald Eagle, from the Endangered Species series, 1983 Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, 38 × 38 in / 96.5 × 96.5 cm, Edition of 150.

image via Artsy (all Warhol art © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. - education use)

For #WorldSeaTurtleDay: Andy Warhol's sea turtle, commissioned as promo art for the 1985 film Turtle Diary.

Andy Warhol (American, 1928 – 1987) Sea Turtle, 1985 [FS II.360A] Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in (80 x 100 cm) Numbered edition of 250, 50 artist proofs, 10 printer’s proofs, 2 bon à tirer. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, NY & published by CBS, Inc., Los Angeles, CA image via 1st Dibs [All Andy Warhol artwork © The Andy Warhol Foundation]

Turtle Diary promotional poster (vertical one-sheet), 1985 image via Posteritati

More on the blog:

#EndangeredSpeciesDay: #DYK Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) made two screenprint series in the 1980s focused on threatened animals?

1st was Endangered Animals, 1983:

African Elephant, Giant Panda, Bald Eagle, Pine Barrens Tree Frog, Siberian Tiger, San Francisco Silverspot Butterfly, Orangutan, Grevy’s Zebra, Black Rhinoceros, Bighorn Ram.

2nd was Vanishing Animals, 1985:

Komodo Monitor, Douc Langur 1, Mongolian Wild Horse, Mouse Armadillo, Douc Langur 2, Bats, Sumatra's Rhinoceros, Okapi, Whooping Crane, Puerto Rican Parrot, Sommerring's Gazelle, Galapagos Tortoise, Giant Chaco Peccary, Butterflies, California Condor, La Plata River Dolphin.

More about both series here:

Keith Haring was born #OTD (4 May 1958 – 16 Feb 1990). He made one of the coolest art elephants ever:

Untitled (Elephant), 1985 acrylic and paper-mâché on display at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Keith Haring painting his paper-mâché elephant at Andy Warhol’s The Factory, NYC, 1985

photo #1 by Paige Powell

photo #2 by Andy Warhol