Editing Andy Warhol (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Andy Warhol's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|Warhol's childhood home at 3252 Dawson Street in the [[Oakland (Pittsburgh)|South Oakland]] neighborhood of [[Pittsburgh]]]]
Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania.{{Sfn|Bockris|1997|p=15}} He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola Sr.; 1889–1942){{Sfn|Bockris|1997|p=25}} and [[Julia Warhola]] ({{nee|Zavacká}}, 1891–1972).<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Driscoll |first=Bill |date=2024-12-10 |title=The mother of Pittsburgh-born Andy Warhol gets a biography of her own |url=https://www.wesa.fm/arts-culture/2024-12-10/julia-warhola-biography-andy-warhol-elaine-rusinko |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=90.5 WESA |language=en}}</ref> His parents were working-class [[Rusyns|Rusyn]] emigrants from Mikó, [[Czechoslovakia]] (now [[Miková]] in northeast [[Slovakia]]).<ref name=":18">{{cite book |last1=Magocsi |first1=Paul Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovCVDLYN_JgC |title=Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture |date=November 30, 2002 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-3566-0 |page=539 |language=en |quote=Warhol's mother and father emigrated from the Rusyn-inhabited village of Mikova in northeastern Slovakia to the United States on the eve of World War I.}}</ref><ref name=":40">{{Cite journal |last=Weinraub |first=Bernard |date=November 1966 |title=Mothers |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_esquire_1966-11_66_5/page/100/mode/2up |journal=Esquire |volume=66 |issue=5 |pages=101, 158}}</ref>

In 1912, Warhol's father emigrated to the United States and found work in a coal mine.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2018 |title=Sorting Fact from Fiction in Andy Warhol's Family History |url=https://deepgenes.com/blog/2017/02/sorting-fact-from-fiction-in-andy-warhols-family-history/ |access-date=July 11, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> His wife joined him nine years later in 1921.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 19, 2014 |title=Andy Warhol's childhood |url=https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2014/05/19/andy-warhols-childhood/ |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=Old Pittsburgh photos and stories {{!}} The Digs |language=en-US}}</ref> The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the [[Oakland (Pittsburgh)|Oakland]] neighborhood of Pittsburgh.<ref name="Bockris-1989">{{Cite book |last=Bockris |first=Victor |author-link=Victor Bockris |url=https://archive.org/details/lifedeathofandyw00bock/page/4 |title=The Life and Death of Andy Warhol |publisher=[[Bantam Books]] |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-553-05708-9 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/lifedeathofandyw00bock/page/4 4–5] |oclc=19631216}}</ref> They were [[Ruthenian Catholic]] and attended [[St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church]]. Warhol had two older brothers, Paul (1922–2014) and [[John Warhola|John]] (1925–2010),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=December 29, 2010 |title=John Warhola, Brother of Andy Warhol, Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/arts/design/29warhola.html |access-date=July 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> as well as an older sister, Maria (1912; died in infancy).<ref name=":40"/><ref name=":11" /> Warhol's nephew [[James Warhola]], became a successful children's book illustrator.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hogan |first=Lauren |date=June 18, 2009 |title=Children's Author James Warhola Tells About His Crazy Uncle Andy (as in Warhol) |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/childrens-author-james-warhola-tells-about-his-crazy-uncle-andy-as-in-warhol-9516641/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref>

At the age of eight, Warhol had a [[Streptococcus|streptococcal infection]] that led to [[scarlet fever]].{{Sfn|Gopnik|2020|p=23}} Because there were no antibiotics to treat the illness it progressed to [[rheumatic fever]] and ultimately the neurological condition [[Sydenham's chorea]], sometimes referred to as St. Vitus' Dance.{{Sfn|Gopnik|2020|p=23}} At times he was confined to bed and made to remain home from school. He would spend these days drawing, creating scrapbooks from Hollywood magazines, and cutting out images from [[comic book]]s that his mother bought him.{{Sfn|Gopnik|2020|pp=26-27}}<ref name=":40" /> He also enjoyed using the family's Kodak Baby Brownie Special camera, and after noticing his passion for photography, his father and brothers built a [[darkroom]] in the basement for him.{{Sfn|Gopnik|2020|p=26}}

[[File:Julia Warhola.jpg|thumb|A toddler Warhol (right) with his mother, [[Julia Warhola|Julia]], and his brother, [[John Warhola|John]], {{circa}} 1930]]When Warhol started art classes at [[Oakland Public School|Holmes School]] in 1937, his art teacher saw his potential and got him admitted to Saturday drawing lessons at the [[Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh|Carnegie Institute]] in Pittsburgh.{{Sfn|Gopnik|2020|p=28}} In 1942, his father died after drinking contaminated water from a coal mine in West Virginia.<ref name=":40"/>

Warhol excelled in school and won a [[Scholastic Art and Writing Awards|Scholastic Art and Writing Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |work=[[Scholastic Corporation]] |access-date=May 22, 2022 |title=Inspiring Young Artists & Writers |url=https://www.scholastic.com/90years/ourStory17.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027013905/https://www.scholastic.com/90years/ourStory17.htm |archive-date=October 27, 2010}}</ref><ref name=":40" /> After graduating from [[Schenley High School]] in 1945, he enrolled at the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] in Pittsburgh, where he studied [[commercial art]]. During his time there, Warhol joined the campus Modern Dance Club and Beaux Arts Society.<ref>{{cite web |title=Andy Warhol: The College Years |url=http://www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=2077 |website=The Andy Warhol Museum |access-date=February 9, 2015 |ref=warholmuse |archive-date=February 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209191855/http://www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=2077 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.artandwriting.org/awards/history/|access-date=January 16, 2021|website=artandwriting.org|language=en}}</ref> He also served as art director of the student art magazine, ''Cano'', illustrating a cover in 1948 and a full-page interior illustration in 1949.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.warhol.org/Warhol/Content/collection/art/earlywork/1998-1-1590 |title=Sprite Heads Playing Violins, 1948 |website=the warhol |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209190850/http://www.warhol.org/Warhol/Content/collection/art/earlywork/1998-1-1590/|archive-date=February 9, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Gopnik">{{cite web|last1=Gopnik|first1=Blake|title=Feb 9, 2015: The Daily Pic|url=http://blakegopnik.com/post/110535434580|website=Blake Gopnik on Art|access-date=February 9, 2015|ref=gopnik|archive-date=February 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209194924/http://blakegopnik.com/post/110535434580|url-status=live}}</ref> These are believed to be his first two published artworks.<ref name="Gopnik"/> Warhol earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial design in 1949.{{sfn|Colacello|1990|p=19}}