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November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019

ANDY WARHOL—FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN TEACHER GUIDE

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6-8, 9-12

K-5, 6-8, 9-12

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PRE-VISIT ACTIVITIES (CONTINUED)

PRE-VISIT ACTIVITIES (CONTINUED)

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Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963. Silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen, thirty-six panels: 80 x 144 in. (203.2 x

365.8 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; jointly owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and The

Metropolitan Museum of Art; gift of Ethel Redner Scull, 86.61a-jj © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists

Rights Society (ARS), New York

Warhol began this portrait of art collector Ethel Scull—his first major painting commission—by taking her

to a photo booth. Scull, who expected to be professionally photographed in a studio, was initially

confused when Warhol brought her to “one of those places on 42nd Street where you put a quarter in a

machine and take three pictures.” As the finished portrait makes clear, however, Scull’s photo session

captured a series of animated, even flirtatious, poses.

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