Pre-Pop: Warhols’ Children’s Book Illustrations
If you’ve always dreamed of owning your very own Warhol, you’re in luck. In fact, it’ll cost you roughly five bucks. Before selling his work at millions of dollars (he may be one of seven artists in the world to have sold a canvas for $100 million), Warhol worked as a freelance artist for Doubleday, making an honest and modest living designing and illustrating books. Before launching himself head first into the art world, Andy completed six illustrated works for Best In Children’s Books.
The illustrations have an air of familiarity to the famous Warhol works we’ve grown to know and for some, love. However, his position as an illustrator remains unacknowledged and often omitted from biographies and historical write ups about the artist.
Seek out this affordable and historic collectors book on Amazon. We’ve already done the legwork for you. You’ll love the amazing, vibrant work in warm pastel schemes that were popular during the time period.
