His first assignment was to create illustrations for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York." When the magazine mistakenly left off the "a" in "Warhola," the artist decided to stick with it and by the next year was going by Andy Warhol.

By the '60s, Warhol had established himself as a serious artist having gained public recognition for his celebrity portraits and gallery works. His studio was called the Factory, a silver painted loft on East 47th Street where he created his "underground" art films and some of his most famous Pop Art paintings. The Factory was later moved to a larger loft in Union Square and became the hang out of Warhol's famous, and often not-so-famous, friends.

By the '70s, Warhol had become so recognizable with his signature glasses and silver wig that fans would often approach him on the street to ask for his autograph. He would never be without copies of Interview magazine, devoted to his celebrity interviews, to autograph and pass out to his admirers. His days were spent at the Factory and his nights were spent attending to what he called "social disease"-an often frenzied schedule of parties and visits to nightclubs such as the infamous Studio 54.

When Warhol died in 1987 following routine gallbladder surgery, the world was stunned. America had lost its most recognized and most recognizable artist. His work can be found all over the world, including Pittsburgh at an entire museum devoted to his life and art. As the most quoted artist in history, Warhol will probably be remembered for saying, "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes." Warhol's "fifteen minutes" has become a legend.

Warhol drawing on a woman's leg, 1966	Dolly Parton and Andy Warhol, early 1980s	Jackie Curtis and Andy Warhol at Studio 54, 1979	Andy Warhol, 1985, by Horst Luedeking