@hyperallergic: When asked about his origins, Andy Warhol would often say, “I am from nowhere.” Yet he was very much from somewhere: Warhol was a product of working-class, industrial, Pittsburgh, the son Julia Warhola, a Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant who saved money she earned cleaning houses so he could attend art school. When he moved to New York, Warhol took Pittsburgh with him, quite literally: Julia, a pious Byzantine Rite Catholic and widowed wife of a coal miner and construction worker who spoke mostly Rusyn, went with him, and lived with him for two decades. An embroiderer, illustrator, sculptor, and calligrapher, she is finally getting her due for the major impact she had on her son’s work as the subject of scholar Elaine Rusinko’s new book, “Andy Warhol’s Mother: The Woman Behind the Artist” (2024). Read Ed Simon’s review through the link in bio. . . . #AndyWarhol #ArtHistory #ModernArt #Slovakia

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