Where’s Warhol?

Andy Warhol at Stockholm's Moderna Museet before the opening of his exhibition there, 1968 (Wikimedia Commons)
Andy Warhol at Stockholm's Moderna Museet before the opening of his exhibition there, 1968 (Wikimedia Commons)

In 1967, three years after graduating from college, I landed the job of assistant art director at Seventeen magazine. It was a chirpy, all-female place—except for Horace, who archived illustrations and prepared layouts for production. In the art department, Ellen, Honey, Mary, and I worked in blue cotton lab coats. Open pots of Best-Test Rubber Cement perfumed the air. We were all a little high.

It was no secret in that sunny room that I’d fallen hard for Andy Warhol. I raved about him to Ellen, Honey, and Mary, raved to the point of vexation.

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Patricia Volk is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and two memoirs, the most recent of which, Shocked, was an NPR book of the year.

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