Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1945 he entered Carnegie
Mellon University and majored in pictorial design. Not wasting any time
immediately after graduating, Warhol moved to New York and became a
successful illustrator for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and The
New Yorker. He later landed an advertising job, dressing window displays for
Bonwit Teller and I. Miller.

Warhol’s career blossomed in the late early ‘60’s after deciding to mass produce
images of pop culture. In order to realize his dream to do so, he opened The
Factory in 1962. He once said, “It was an art studio where I employed in a
rather chaotic way “art workers” to mass produce mainly prints and posters but
also other items like shoes designs.” His innovations in printmaking also made
Warhol a significant figure in art history. He pioneered a printing process
whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is
then placed on a canvas and inked from the back.