Julia Warhola

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Julia Warhola
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeBethel Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse
Ondrej Warhola
​
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(m. 1909; died 1942)​
Children4, including John and Andy
RelativesJames Warhola (grandson)
Websitewarhola.com

Julia Warhola (

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) was the mother of the American artist Andy Warhol
.

Life

Julia Warhola was born Juliana Justina Zavaczki to a peasant family in the

St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church
. Her husband Andrew was born in 1889 and died in 1942.

Julia enjoyed singing traditional Rusyn folk songs and was artistic. She loved to draw, and her favorite subjects were angels and cats. She also did embroidery and other crafts, such as bouquets of flowers made from tin cans and crepe paper. During the Easter season she decorated eggs in the

Pysanka
tradition.

As a widow, she moved to New York City in 1951 to be near her son Andy. He often used her decorative handwriting to accompany his illustrations. She won awards for her lettering, including one from the

Louis Thomas Hardin in 1958. In 1957 she illustrated a small book called Holy Cats[3] and she also worked on 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy.[4]

In 1966, Andy made a movie called Mrs. Warhol (it was filmed in color and played for 66 minutes). The film featured Julia in her basement apartment in Andy's house playing "an aging peroxide movie star with a lot of husbands," including the most current spouse, played by Richard Rheem. Andy follows her with his camera as she goes about her daily domestic routines.

After Andy was shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968, his partner Jed Johnson moved into his Lexington Avenue home to care for him and Julia.[5] By 1970, Julia's health was rapidly declining and Jed suggested that she should be admitted to a nursing home but Andy was against that idea.[5] In February 1971, already stricken with dementia, Julia suffered a stroke.[5] Due to his busy work schedule, Andy decided it would be beneficial for Julia to return to Pittsburgh and live with his brother Paul in 1971.[5] At Paul's home, she suffered another stroke, and after she was released from the hospital, she was put in a nursing home against Andy's wishes, but he paid for the bill.[6]

When Julia died of a third stroke on November 22, 1972, Andy did not attend her funeral nor announce her death to his friends and associates.[5][7] He would tell anyone asking about her that she was shopping at Bloomingdale's.[7] Even his live-in boyfriend Jed had only accidentally found out about her death much later from one of Andy's brothers.[5]

She is buried with her husband Andrew, near their son Andy (who would be buried there in 1987), in the St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a south suburb of Pittsburgh.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Sorting Fact from Fiction in Andy Warhol's Family History". deepgenes.com. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  2. ^ "Noviny e-Dukla".
  3. OCLC 229481850
    .
  4. OCLC 81128225
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-06-229839-3
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0-553-05708-9
    .
  7. ^
    ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  8. ISBN 0-553-05708-1
    .

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