THEN

Andy Warhol moved to this slender townhouse (second from the corner of 89th street) in 1960. The fourteen years he lived here were certainly the most significant of his career, when he transitioned from being a successful illustrator to a leading American artist. He used the ground floor as a studio where he created his early hand-painted works, and shared the house with his mother, Julia Warhola, and later, interior designer Jed Johnson, who he met in the late 1960s. After Warhol and Johnson moved to East 67th Street in 1974, the house was occupied by Fred Hughes, the artist’s long-time business manager and founder of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.