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| phaidon.com |
Throughout his career, Andy Warhol collaborated with his mother, Julia Warhola (1892-1972). She enjoyed drawing angels and cats, and did the drawing below of cats and a Campbell's Soup can years before Andy's own iconic Pop Art painting.
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| Cats by Julia Warhola | liveauctioneers.com | post-gazette.com |
Warhol liked his mother's quirky drawings, but he especially admired her distinctive handwriting. Julia, who was widowed, moved to New York City when Andy was a young art director at Doubleday, and they shared the same apartment.
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| artnet.com |
Above you can see a letter from Julia and below is Andy's business card, which he had his mother pen.
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| lettery.tumbler.com |
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| archiveofamericanart.typepad.com |
In this funny early correspondence, one can see that Warhol's own handwriting was influenced by his mother's.
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| garybruderfineart.com |
Much of Andy Warhol's early work, such as this lithograph, incorporates Julia's handwriting. She penned the LP record album cover below, for which she (not Andy for having art directed it) won a 1958 award from The American Institute of Graphic Arts.
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| popartheaven.com |
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| brainpickings.org |
Here's a page from a cookbook that Andy Warhol created in 1959 with Suzy Frankfurt — again, the calligraphy is by Julia Warhola. To read how the cookbook evolved, and to get some insights into the young Andy Warhol, click
here.
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| luc.devroye.org |
In 2001, Spanish designer Pepe Gimeno created this type font, called
Warhol. Perhaps it should have been named
Julia Warhola!
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