Andy Warhol [born Warhola] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, was an American visual artist, and film director and producer, who was in the forefront of the American Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Presented is a hand-drawn Campbell's Soup can sketch by Warhol. Warhol graduated from Carnegie Mellon and moved to New York City, becoming a commercial artist. His most famous works involved paintings of 32 Campbell Soup cans in 1962. For years he added to the original 32 paintings by adding silk screenings of more Campbell's Soup cans. The original 32 Campbell's Soup can [paintings each measured 20" in height by 16" in width. Warhol's frequent subjects included things he liked: Campbell's Soup, money [dollar bills], Coca-Cola, and movie stars - Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor. The artists also achieved fame for his movie Chelsea Girls (1966).Warhol passed away in 1987, and his pop art was revolutionary, transforming art as much as Marcel Duchamps did in 1917. 

The Campbells Soup sketch is on Andy Warhol stationery measuring 5.25x8.25". Machine printed on the stationery is "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol". Warhol used a fine tip black marker to draw a very rough sketch of a Campbell's Soup can, which measures approx. 3.5x5.4". Using a fine tip black marker, Warhol wrote the following, which begins above the Campbell's Soup Can image, continues over the image and then below the soup can:" to gary [sic] Campbells [sic] Duck Soup/Andy Warhol/ Palm Beach 1975/With Seve's home[?]. On back is the machine printed "THE PHILOSOPHY". The offering has been encapsulated and PSA/DNA CERETIFIRD AUTHENTIC AUTO (851402267). The offering is in EXCELLENT condition.