The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University is showcasing the artwork of Andy Warhol in a new exhibition that will be on display August 8 through October 6.
Curated by history major Alyssa Lawhorn ’26, Warhol Revisited reexamines, with a modern lens, Warhol’s personal attitudes and involvement in the Pop Art movement to better understand how his prints play a role in today’s world.
“With a variety of subject matter, Warhol’s prints give insight into the focal points and topics of importance of not only the Pop Art movement but Warhol himself,” says Lawhorn.
In 2011, the Wilson Museum received over 100 photographs from the Andy Warhol Foundation, which celebrated its 20th anniversary that year with substantial gifts of Warhol’s photographic works to college and university art galleries across the United States. In 2013, additional gifts were made to complement the photographs. The Wilson Museum received seven important Warhol prints that are on view in this exhibition. These prints by Warhol were outside the published or trial proof editions.
Lawhorn is the Wilson Museum’s summer 2024 intern, sponsored by a grant from the International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation. She will lead a gallery talk about her research and experience curating Warhol Revisited on Friday, August 9, at 2 p.m. at the Wilson Museum. A fully illustrated catalogue with text by Lawhorn accompanies the exhibition.
Warhol Revisited and its associated programs are sponsored in part by the City of Roanoke through the Roanoke Arts Commission.
The Wilson Museum is open Tuesday – Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., and Thursday, noon – 8 p.m. (closed Monday). Admission is always free.
Image: Andy Warhol, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1975. Screenprint on Arches paper, 44 x 28 7/8.” Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation, 2014.005. Courtesy of the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University.
