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$1

Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
Title $1
Date 1982
Medium Color silkscreen on paperboard
Dimensions Image: 19 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. (50.2 x 39.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. (50.2 x 39.7 cm)
Credit Line Extra, out of the edition. Designated for research and educational purposes only. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2013.153

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The Pop artist Andy Warhol embraced popular culture and commercialism, once stating that "big-time art is big-time money." To seemingly illustrate this point, he produced a series of paintings of dollar signs (the American symbol for cash) for a show at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1981. In order to further market this idea, Warhol created prints like this one that could be sold more cheaply to an even larger audience. While the images were made in many color variations, the green of this work suggests the color of paper money.


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