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Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born at the time of the famous Wall Street Crash (1929) and the Great Depression. Like millions of other families, Andy's father could not find work and his early childhood was very difficult and deprived. After several years his family's financial situation improved and able to attend a commercial design course at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology. Although he was very shy and had a strong …

…his death in 1987 he was placed on the same level with Picasso and Pollock as one of the three most important artists of this century. He was a workingman, a social climber, and a person who liked to build things. These attributes all contributed to the interesting and complicated nature of his art. References: Copplestone, Trewin. The Life and Works of Andy Warhol. Great Britain: Parragon, 1995. Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Walt Disney. Germany: Prestel, 1992.