The Factory was the studio of Pop artist Andy Warhol in New York City. It was the center of his artistic, social, and filmmaking activities from 1964 to 1987. Originally located at 231 East 47th Stree
Warhol with his stuffed Great Dane Cecil and members of the Factory: Candy Darling against the wall, Brigid Berlin taking a Polaroid photo, Geraldine Smith on a leash, Jed Johnson holding a camera, Gerard Malanga hanging on the wall, and Ingrid Superstar leashed to the wall. This photo by Claude Picasso was published in Esquire (December 1969).
The Decker Building, the second location of the Factory at 33 Union Square West.
The third incarnation of the Factory was located at 860 Broadway.
This trunk was used at Warhol's Silver Factory as a storage unit and film prop. Edie Sedgwick sits on this trunk in Vinyl (1965). After Warhol died in 1987, negatives of photographs by Billy Name were found inside the trunk, as well as the script of Up Your Ass (1965) by Valerie Solanas, which was thought to have been lost.
Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, film
The Factory
…The Factory was the studio of Pop artist Andy Warhol in New York City. It was the center of his artistic, social, and filmmaking activities from 1964 to 1987. Originally located at 231 East 47th Street…
Warhol (right) as a toddler with his mother, Julia, and his brother, John, c. 1930
Warhol as a student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, 1947
From 1960 to 1974, Warhol lived at 1342 Lexington Avenue in Carnegie Hill, Manhattan.
Campbell's Soup Cans (1961–62)