Where did Andy Warhol grow up and live?

📍3252 Dawson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

1928 – 1949

“I was born Andrew Warhola on the 6th of August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Ruthenian immigrants. The Pittsburgh of my childhood was a steel city — dark with smoke, industrial, ethnically divided. I was a sickly child who spent time in bed drawing and cutting out pictures from magazines. My mother Julia was an embroiderer and folk artist who moved to New York to live with me in 1952 and stayed for twenty years. Pittsburgh gave me the working-class immigrant background that I spent my adult life simultaneously escaping and memorialising. The Campbell's Soup Cans were about the repetition of ordinary commercial life — the life I had grown up in.”

👍 LovedThe immigrant community of Pittsburgh with its folk art traditions and working-class directness. My mother Julia's embroidery and religious folk art. The sickly childhood that developed the habit of close visual attention.

👎 DislikedThe poverty and the immigrant stigma. The illness that kept me in bed and created the distance from normal childhood. The steel city's darkness.

Map showing where Andy Warhol lived — 3252 Dawson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Andy Warhol's home at 3252 Dawson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

📍 Street view today

Sources: Bockris, V. Warhol: The Biography (1989), Muller; Warhol, A. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Harcourt