Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art selling artwork by Andy Warhol

It’s your chance to own a Warhol! The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), in conjunction with the Warhol Foundation, will be selling four artworks by the late great Andy Warhol with proceeds going to SMoCA.

The four pieces of artwork range in price from a $250 poster to a $20,000 screen print.

Called the Philanthropy Factory, the initiative started August 6, 2024, honoring Andy Warhol’s philanthropic legacy on his birthday.

To provide insight into the initiative, we were joined by Jennifer McCabe, Director and Chief Curator at SMoCA.

“The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is based in New York. They’re a very generous foundation for artists centered organizations like SMoCA and that just means we really are concerned about artists, what’s good for artists providing them opportunities and things like that. So as a grantee they offer this opportunity to get proceeds from the sale,” said McCabe. 

The pieces include Wrapping Paper, Muhammad Ali, Shoemaker and Cow. 

“The Wrapping Paper was printed in 1959. Warhol as you know is known as a pop artist and so he really embraced the kind of popular mediums of graphic design and screen printing and things that were really accessible. So this is a chance to own a little something of Warhol,” said McCabe. 

Muhammad Ali’s print is worth almost $3,000 and the art created behind Ali was designed by Warhol. 

The famous Campbell’s tomato soup can and Cow uses a similar technique of the silk screen. Cow is estimated at around $20,000 making it the highest price of the collection. 

“Probably almost as well known as the infamous tomato can of soup right the Campbell’s tomato can but the cow is a silk screen created by Warhol also 1971. This one is valued at $20,000,” said McCabe.