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Andy Warhol's monumental series of 102 paintings, Shadows, constitutes the second exhibition in Dia's new facility at 535 West 22nd Street. Acquired in 1979 for Dia's permanent collection, these variously colored silk-screened abstractions are hung edge-to-edge to fill the perimeter of the gallery, in conformity with Warhol's original installation, which he designated as "one painting with...parts."
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| Checklist of Works |
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Shadows, 1978
An installation of 60 of the 102 paintings comprising this multipartite work
Acrylic, variously silkscreened and handpainted on canvas
Overall length variable: each individual painting 76 x 52 inches (193 x 132 cm)
Collection Dia Center for the Arts
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Francis, Mark. "No There There or Horror Vacui: Andy Warhol's Installations." In
Andy Warhol: Paintings 1960–1986 (Lucerne: Kunstmuseum, 1995). Edited by
Martin Schwander.
Stoichita, Victor. A Short History of the Shadow (London: Reaktion Books), 1997.
Andy Warhol: Abstrakt. Munich: Prestel, in association with Kunsthalle Basel and
Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1993. Essays by Thomas Kellein and Callie Angel, 1993.
Andy Warhol: Shadow Paintings. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1989. Introduction by Julian Schnabel.
Warhol Shadows. Houston: The Menil Collection, 1987.
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| Biography |
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Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh to immigrant parents of Czechoslavakian (Ruthenian) stock. From 1945 to 1949, he studied pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Relinquishing a successful and acclaimed career
as a commercial illustrator in New York in the 1950s, he began exhibiting paintings with silkscreened Pop imagery in 1962. In 1963 he began making films. Thereafter his work was widely shown throughout the world. Shadows was first exhibited at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery (Lone Star Foundation) in New York in January 1979. Warhol died
on February 22, 1987.
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| Lecture |
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Victor Stoichita will lecture on Andy Warhol's Shadows on Thursday, June 3, 1999,
at 6:30pm.
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| Funding |
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Funding for this project has been provided by members of the Dia Art Council.
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