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\"Andy <\/a>
Andy Warhol, between seven and nine years old, circa 1935. (Credit: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"1949: <\/a>
1949: Warhol in New York City. (Credit: Philip Pearlstein) <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a>
A self portrait Warhol created while a student at Schenley High School. (Credit: Handout\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a>
A collection of childhood photos of Warhol, published in The Pittsburgh Press May 13, 1994. <\/div> <\/div>
\"Andy <\/a>
Andy Warhol outdoors. (Credit: Hulton Archive\/Getty Images) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Still <\/a>
Still of Andy Warhol from Scenes in the Life of Andy Warhol. (Credit: Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"John <\/a>
John Warhola (brother of Andy Warhol) signs autographs in front of a replica of the new Andy Warhol stamp unveiled at the Andy Warhol Museum on Aug 8, 2002. (Andy Starnes\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Donald <\/a>
Donald Warhola, a nephew of Andy Warhol, talks about the Andy Warhol Museum involvement in Holocaust Remembrance Day activities, January 2014. (Larry Roberts\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Paul <\/a>
Paul Warhola, 83, of Smock, Fayette County, witnessed Babe Ruth hit his final three major league home runs on May 25, 1935 when he was 12. He was an older brother of Andy. (Lake Fong\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

The humble beginnings of Pop artist Andy Warhol are worth revisiting because like so many Americans and Pittsbugh residents born in the 20th century, he was the son of immigrants.<\/p>\n

His real name was Andy Warhola. His parents, Julia and \u201cOndrej\u201d or Andrew, were Eastern European immigrants from the Carpathian Mountains, just north of Transylvania.<\/p>\n

Andy\u2019s father traveled to America in the early 1900s and worked as a coal miner in Pennsylvania. In 1909, Mr. Warhola returned to Eastern Europe and proposed to his future wife, Julia, who was one of 15 children. They married that year.<\/p>\n

In 1912, Mr. Warhola immigrated to America, leaving his bride behind. Nine years passed before she joined him in Pittsburgh in 1921. Their first son, Paul, was born in 1922 and their second son, John, arrived in 1925. Andy arrived in 1927.<\/p>\n

The Warhola family lived in Soho at 73 Orr Street in a two-room, tar paper shack and used an outhouse in an alley. When their youngest son, Andy, was two, the Warholas moved around the corner to a home on Beelen Street that had its own commode. The family attended church at St. John Chrysostom Eastern Rite Russian Greek Catholic Church, which was two miles from their home.<\/p>\n

By 1934, the family moved to 3252 Dawson Street in lower Oakland, a step up from the working class neighborhood of Soho. When he was 10, Andy Warhola\u2019s fifth grade teacher recommended him for Saturday art classes at the Carnegie Museum. That\u2019s where he came under the profound influence of Joseph C. Fitzpatrick, a legendary art teacher.<\/p>\n

Mr. Warhola worked for the John Eichleay Company, which moved houses and did construction. But he knew his youngest son had talent and set aside $1,500 in a postal bond for Andy to go to college. He died in 1942, seven years before Andy Warhola moved to New York City to make his name and leave an indelible impression on the art world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He was the son of immigrants.<\/p>\n

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