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Arts|To Get His Museum, Opening in '92
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- Oct. 3, 1989
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More than 700 paintings by Andy Warhol, as well as drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, films and videotapes, will form the core collection of a museum devoted entirely to the artist's work, to open in 1992 in his hometown, Pittsburgh.
Details of the Andy Warhol Museum emerged yesterday. It will occupy a renovated industrial building on Pittsburgh's culturally blossoming North Side and will be operated by the Carnegie Museum of Art. The works - said by officials of the venture to be worth more than $80 million - have been donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Dia Foundation, an organization that supports innovative projects by contemporary artists.
As director of the Warhol Museum, the Carnegie has chosen Mark Francis, a 37-year-old Englishman with an extensive background in contemporary art. Mr. Francis will also serve as curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie.
''It was one of those wonderful, terribly exciting ideas that nobody ever expected,'' Philip M. Johnston, director of the Carnegie said in an interview yesterday. ''Since we are a museum committed to the 20th century in a major way, and Andy attended art classes at this museum and graduated from our neighboring institution, Carnegie-Mellon University, the whole thing has a ring of rightness.'' 'An Exemplary Achievement'
The collaborative project was hailed yesterday by Ashton Hawkins, executive vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who is also chairman of Dia's board, as ''an exemplary achievement for the arts.'' He added, ''Dia, the Warhol Foundation and the Carnegie together will create a great public institution that no one of us could have managed alone.''
The Warhol Museum got its start after the artist's death in 1987, said Charles Wright, president of the Dia Foundation. Dia had been presenting a series of long-term shows devoted to Warhol's work, primarily from its own holdings.
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