Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987), My Shoe is Your Shoe (from "A la recherche due shoe perdue" with poems by Ralph Pomeroy), 1955, hand colored off-set lithograph. Gift of Richard F. Holmes, Class of 1946. M.2005.17.31.L © 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Warhola Becomes Warhol—Andy Warhol: Early Work. Drawn from the museum's collection, this exhibition features Andy Warhol’s early work—from 1952 through the late 1960s—demonstrating his evolution from commercial artist to Pop icon. Warhola Becomes Warhol contains over 50 works on paper and sculpture, including hand-colored off-set lithographs, blotted-line drawings, and rare artist books. The exhibition includes several rare pieces, including a unique, unbound, original manuscript of "Snow in the Street and Rain in the Sky," 1952. Also on view are several of Warhol's rarely displayed Polaroid portraits of celebrities, including Mick Jagger; working "dummies," or mock-ups, created for Warhol’s Interview magazine; and an original collage (1966) that became his iconic cow wallpaper. Several later works, such as Jackie (1964) and Self Portrait (1986) will also be on display, allowing visitors to understand how the techniques that Warhol learned as a commercial artist became the vehicles he later employed to mass produce his artwork and create the Warhol brand. The exhibition will be on view through June 10, 2007. A series of related gallery talks and lectures are listed below. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)