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He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. But by accident the credit read “Drawings by Andy Warhol” and that’s how Andy dropped the “a” in his last name. He got his first break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled “Success is a Job in New York”.
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A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He is considered a founder and major figure of the POP ART movement. on Sunday, February 22nd, 1987, at the New York Hospital after a gallbladder operation. However, there is no doubt that he died at 6:31 A.M. Whether or not this is the day he was born hasn’t been proved, but it was on this date he would celebrate his birthday. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to where and when Andy Warhol was born, but according to Andy’s two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th in Pittsburgh. The American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. Browse Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonnés Online.