Andy Warhol: I’ll Be Your Mirror - Tang Teaching Museum

Andy Warhol, Regine, 1977, polacolor type 108, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 2008.6.2 , ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol, Dorothy Hamill, 1977, polacolor type 108, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 2008.6.58, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol, Mrs. Carlo and Daughter Bilotti, December 1980, polacolor 2, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 2008.6.85, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol, Ladies and Gentleman (Broadway), 1974, polacolor type 108, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 2008.6.94, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, 1984, polacolor ER, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 2008.6.105, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda 1982, Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 2013.13.2, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Featuring works recently acquired by the Tang Teaching Museum, this group of polaroid portraits and prints by legendary American pop artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987) includes a selection of photographs Warhol took during the 1970s and 1980s as well as portrait silkscreens of artist Joseph Beuys and actor Jane Fonda from the early 1980s. Taken together, the exhibition demonstrates an important aspect of Warhol’s process, as the Polaroids served as the basis for many of his paintings and silkscreens.

The exhibition celebrates two generous gifts from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2008 and 2013, which include over 100 Polaroid photographs, approximately 50 original gelatin silver prints, and several prints.

Andy Warhol: I’ll be Your Mirror is curated by the Tang Museum’s Dayton Director Ian Berry.