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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Untitled
This is a rare example of a figure drawing by Andy Warhol. Local Fayetteville resident Martha Sutherland attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the late 1940s, where the young Warhol was one of her classmates. “We had a class exercise called ‘Head and Hands’; subject and medium of our choice,” she recalls. “After the class-wide critiques, I asked Andy if I could buy his painting, and he sold it to me for thirty-five dollars. It hung over our bed for...sixty or seventy years.”
ArtistAndy Warhol(1928-1987)
Dateca. 1949
MediumTempera, graphite, and ink on board
Dimensions25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signedverso, on board, u.r., in pencil: WARHOLA
verso, on board, c.r., in pencil: WARHOLA
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Gift of Martha Sutherland and Celia Sutherland Wirth, 2013.40
ClassificationPainting
Provenanceto Martha Slocum Sutherland, Pittsburgh, PA, by 1949; Boston, MA; Fayetteville, AR; given to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2013
On ViewYes
This artwork's face covers about 103× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.





