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Warhol exhibit lands at Jundt

Photographic works by Andy Warhol, America’s Pop Artist famed for his Campbell’s Soup labels and Marilyn Monroe screen prints, have arrived in Spokane.

The Jundt Art Museum has received a large gift from the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, recently announced by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

More than 100 original Polaroid photographs and 50 original black-and-white gelatin silver prints by Warhol, who died in 1987, are now in the collection Gonzaga University, including images of Dorothy Hamill, 1977, Princess Caroline of Monaco, 1983, Sonia Rykiel, 1986; Tom Seaver, 1977; Sean Lennon, 1985; and undated images of Liza Minnelli, Valentino, Yoko Ono, and others.

“A wealth of information about Warhol’s process and his interactions with his sitters is revealed in these images,” said Jenny Moore, curator of the Legacy Program.

She said that by presenting the Poloroids and silver prints together – which Warhol took simultaneously during a shoot – it “allows viewers to move back and forth between moments of Warhol’s ‘art,’ ‘work,’ and ‘life’ – inseparable parts of a whole.”

In all, there have been 28,543 original Warhol photographs valued in excess of $28 million donated to 183 college and university art museums across the U.S., in honor of the foundation’s 20th anniversary.

An exhibition is planned at the Jundt Art Museum in 2010, but the works can be seen in the meantime on request.