Valerie Solanas
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Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist known for her attempted assassination of artist Andy Warhol in 1968.
Solanas in 1968
This prop trunk, used in Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, is where the copy of the script of Up Your Ass that Solanas gave Warhol was eventually found after Warhol's death in 1987.
Andy Warhol and his dachshund Archie, 1973
Solanas's grave at Saint Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church Cemetery in Fairfax Station, Virginia
Andy Warhol
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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
Valerie Solanas
…contrived". The short story was published in Cavalier magazine in July 1966. Up Your Ass remained unpublished until 2014. In 1967, Solanas called artist Andy Warhol at his Manhattan studio, the Factory, and asked him to produce Up Your Ass. Warhol thought the title was "wonderful" and he invited her to come over…
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)