Series Without Limits: Photographs, Prints, and Film by Andy Warhol

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Throughout his career, Andy Warhol experimented with commercial processes and marketing strategies to push the boundaries of the New York art market. This exhibit highlights the range of media that inspired and challenged the artist at the height of his fame.

A smiling man with a hairy chest wears a silver bob-style wig
Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987), Bob Colacello, 1973, August, Polaroid (Polacolor Type 108), 3 ¾ x 2 ⅞ inches. Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art. Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2008.041.076. Copyright © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Candid photographs reveal Warhol’s fascination with people and how the snapshot emerged as source material for Warhol’s artistic practice. Offering editioned screenprints on paper sustained a stable income for Warhol throughout the 1970s, while expanding the distribution of his iconic images. Screenings of the film Empire (1965)—the first time it’s been shown at Middlebury—will examine Warhol’s desire to simultaneously pursue a range of film projects through Andy Warhol Enterprise.