7 February - 1 April 2002

Introduction | Room Guide | Timeline

1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s

1940
He begins to collect photographs of movie stars. A signed publicity still of Shirley Temple becomes his prize possession.

1941
USA enters Second World War.

1942
Andrej Warhola dies.

1945
Harry S. Truman becomes President of USA.
Second World War ends.

1945 - 49
Andy attends the Carnegie Institute of Technology, majoring in pictorial design.

1949
He moves to New York and becomes known as 'Andy Warhol'. He works as a window dresser, book illustrator and as a commercial artist for magazines, including Glamour, Vogue and Seventeen. Infatuated with the writer Truman Capote, Andy inundates him with fan letters and telephone calls until Capote's mother asks him to stop.
Life magazine presents Jackson Pollock as the greatest living painter in America.