List of record covers designed by Andy Warhol
The list of record covers designed by Andy Warhol lists all long-playing records , EPs and singles whose covers were designed by artist Andy Warhol from 1949 to 1987. This includes illustrations for records of various genres, including musicians such as Sergei Prokofjew , Arthur Fiedler , Arturo Toscanini , Thelonious Monk , Count Basie , George Gershwin and Artie Shaw , and later pop and rock musicians such as The Rolling Stones , John Cale , Paul Anka , Liza Minnelli , Diana Ross , The Smiths , Aretha Franklin , John Lennon and Debbie Harry .
introduction
Andy Warhol designed his first album cover shortly after arriving in New York City in 1949. During his various creative periods Warhol turned again and again to the medium of record and in particular to the record sleeve, its graphic and product design. In addition to his best-known works in this genre, the "Banana Cover " by The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) and the zip cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers (1971), Warhol created over fifty album covers in the course of his career. Most of this work was featured in Paul Marechal's book Andy Warhol: The Record Covers (1949-1987) in 2008 and in the 2009 exhibition of Andy Warhol's album cover artwork at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts .
Many of Warhol's cover illustrations were based on photographs, such as Kenny Burrell's self-titled debut album for Blue Note from 1956, which anticipated his later large-format portraits of pop stars and actors. Another Blue Note album cover, Johnny Griffin's LP Congregation (1957), which was also based on a photograph and featured brightly colored flowers on Griffin's shirt, was a forerunner of the great Flowers series of the following decade. According to Fred Kaplan in the New York Times, "all of his album covers mirrored his other art forms, reflecting and visualizing the broad pop culture of his time."
Original Andy Warhol record cover 1949–1987
year | Musician / band | title | Label | Remarks |
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1949 | Carlos Chavez | A Program of Mexican Music | Columbia Records | The cover of the Columbia LP is considered Warhol's first album cover; it was created when the artist was 21 years old. The restrained illustration is still a long way from the shrill style that shaped his generation. |
1949 | The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy , The Westminster Choir, Dr. John Finley Williamson , Jennie Tourel | Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky / Cantata, Op. 78 | Columbia | There is both a green version and a pink-orange version of the cover, the latter being a re-release of the album around 1960; the original cover from 1949 was blue. The art director in charge was Alex Steinweiss , who created the basic format for these early LP covers. |
1949 | Bruno Walter , Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra New York | Beethoven, Symphony No. 1 | Columbia | |
1950? | Margarita Madrigal, H. Andrés Morales | Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish | Doubleday | |
1951 | Vladimir Horowitz | Piano Music of Mendelssohn and Liszt | RCA Victor | The sketchy style anticipated the work of Warhol for the numerous jazz LP covers of Prestige in the following years. |
1951? | Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra | George Gershwin / Ferde Grofé : Rhapsody in Blue / Grand Canyon Suite | RCA Victor | |
1951 | Bill Downs | The Nation's Nightmare - Traffic in Narcotics / Crime On the Waterfront | Columbia Special Products | Recorded from a CBS radio series with Bill Downs on July 19 and August 16, 1951. |
1952 | Arthur Fiedler | Latin Rhythms by The Boston Pops | RCA Victor | |
1952 | VA | Progressive piano | RCA Victor | The compilation included recordings by jazz pianists Art Tatum , Lennie Tristano , Mary Lou Williams and André Previn . |
1952 | ? | Night beat | RCA Victor | The rare cover of this EP was discovered shortly before the exhibition of the Warhol covers at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2014/15). |
1953 | Lew White | Melodic Magic Vol. 2 | Camden | |
1953 | Erica Morini | Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto | RCA Victor | |
1954 | Arturo Toscanini | Gioachino Rossini : William Tell / Semiramide Overtures | RCA Victor | |
1955 | Count Basie Orchestra | Count Basie | RCA Victor | The ink-sketched image of swing band leader Count Basie is considered one of the earliest of Warhol's famous portraits. It was published on the back of the record cover. |
1956 | Artie Shaw | Both feet in the groove | RCA Victor | |
1956 | Conte Candoli , Nick Travis , Dick Sherman , Bernie Glow , Phil Sunkel and others a. | Cool Gabriels | Groove LG 1003 | |
1956 | Jan Smeterlin | Chopin Nocturnes , Vol. 2 | Epic | |
1956 | Joe Newman Octet | I'm still swinging | RCA Victor | Joe Newman Octet's album existed in the form of two EPs and a later LP; they differ in the coloring of the Warhol cover. It was around this time that Andy Warhol began playing jazz LP covers for RCA Victor. This work was an early application of the collage technique. |
1956 | Thelonious Monk | MONK | Prestige Records | Warhol created this cover for a Monk album as a freelance designer for Prestige before being hired by rival Blue Note label . There he created a number of record covers with Reid Miles . Warhol's mother Julia Warhola was involved in the prestige order. |
1956 | JJ Johnson , Kai Winding , Benny Green | Trombone by Three | Blue note | Warhol's first work for Blue Note in 1956 was made with Reid Miles, but was not used on the original cover. |
1957 | Joe Newman / Zoot Sims | Locking horns | RAMA | |
1957? | Byron Janis and Erica Morini | George Gershwin : Porgy and Bess / Edvard Grieg : Symphonic Dances | RCA Victor Bluebird | |
1957 | Kenny Burrell | Kenny Burrell, Vol. 1 | Blue note | The first of Warhol's three works for LPs by guitarist Kenny Burrell. |
1957 | Moondog | The Story of Moondog | Prestigious | Warhol used a calligraphy made by his mother Julia here. |
1958 | Kenny Burrell | Blue Lights, Volume 1 | Blue note | |
1958 | Kenny Burrell | Blue Lights, Volume 2 | Blue note | |
1958 | Johnny Griffin | The Congregation | Blue note | The Johnny Griffin cover is considered an early example of Warhol's flamboyant printing process; the flower shirt also refers to later works. |
1958 | Maurice Ravel / Boston Symphony Orchestra | Daphnis and Chloe | RCA | |
1960 | Tennessee Williams | Reading from the Glass Menagerie, The Yellow Book and Five Poems | Another illustration where Warhol used a calligraphic work from his mother; it appeared in several color variations. | |
1963 | Andy Warhol | Giant Size $ 1.57 Each | - | Andy Warhol created this album cover specifically for The Popular Image exhibition held at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art from April to June 1963. The work is considered one of the rarest Warhol record covers today; it was produced in an edition of 75 signed and numbered copies and contained interviews with artists such as Roy Lichtenstein , Jim Dine , George Brecht , Jasper Johns , John Wesley and Robert Watts , which were made during the exhibition. |
1964 | John Wallowitch | This is John Wallowitch | Serenus | John Wallowitch was a pianist and the brother of Warhol's friend, photographer Ed Wallowitch . The cover shows Warhol's interest in experimental photography. |
1966 | VA | The East Village Other | ESP disk | Compilation album u. a. with poets like Allen Ginsberg and Ismail Reed , the rock band The Velvet Underground, underground, folk and jazz musicians like Tuli Kupferberg and Marion Brown . Andy Warhol himself participated with the title Silence . |
1967 | The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground & Nico | verve | The first editions still contained the imprint peel slowly and see , where a picture of a banana fruit appeared after removing the banana sticker. Here Andy Warhol's signature was shown highlighted on the cover for the first time, but there was no reference to the band. |
1971 | The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers | Rolling Stones Records | The Sticky Fingers cover is probably Warhol's most famous cover, which caused a sensation with the zipper on the original LP. |
1971 | The Rolling Stones | Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock (Live) | Rolling Stones Records | The cover of the EP varied the concept of the LP Sticky Fingers , from which the three titles came. |
1971 | Ultra violet | Ultra violet | Capitol Records | This album by the formation Ultra Violet never went on sale, even if several copies of the LP exist. |
1972 | John Cale | The Academy in Peril | Reprise Records | With this work, Warhol paid John Cale to use the song Days of Steam in Warhol's film Heat . |
1976 | Paul Anka | The painter | United Artists Records | Warhol's painting of the singer and actor Paul Anka begins the series of wide-color prints that shaped his famous portrait style. |
1977 | The Rolling Stones | Love You Live | Rolling Stones Records | Warhol should not have been thrilled that Mick Jagger defaced his design with his pen. |
1980 | Walter Steding and The Dragon People | The Joke | Earhole | 12 inch single |
1981 | John Cale | Honi Soit | A&M Records | |
1981 | Liza Minnelli | At Carnegie Hall | Altel Sound Systems | Warhol's cover design for Liza Minnelli's fourth live album is considered one of the less ambitious works of the artist. |
1982 | Billy Squier | Emotions in Motion | Capitol | |
1982 | Diana Ross | Silk Electric | RCA | A classic Warhol portrait. |
1982? | Loredana Berté | Made in Italy | CGD | The cover art of this album is more considered a product of his factory than Warhol himself. |
1982 | Peer ravens | Querelle - A pact with the devil | Jupiter | Warhol designed the cover of the soundtrack for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Querelle . The released single Each Man Kills the Things He Loves also used a Warhol print. |
1983 | Miguel Bose | Made in Spain | CBS | |
1983 | Soul Vacation | Rats and Star | ||
1983 | The Rolling Stones | Emotional tattoo | - | A Rolling Stones bootleg album |
1984 | Ratfab | Ratfab (EP) | ||
1984 | Roland & The Flying Albatross Band | Det brinner en eld | Red House | The work is considered to be one of the rarest Warhol record covers; 300 copies of the single were released in Sweden. |
1984 | The Smiths | The Smiths | Rough Trade | |
1985 | Velvet Underground | Screen test, Falling in Love with the Falling Spikes | ||
1986 | John Lennon | Menlove Ave. | EMI | The LP was released posthumously after John Lennon's death and was released by Yoko Ono . |
1986 | Debbie Harry | Rockbird | Geffen | |
1986 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha | Arista | The album, which also included Franklin's title RESPECT , was Warhol's last cover work, released before his death in 1987. |
1987 | MTV | High priority | RCA Victor | Andy Warhol's last draft for an album cover was not completed until after his death in February 1987. The MTV compilation included recordings by Aretha Franklin, the Eurythmics , Whitney Houston , Grace Jones , Cyndi Lauper and Patti LaBelle ; the proceeds from LP sales were used to support breast cancer research. |
Posthumously published record covers (selection)
year | Musician / band / commissioner | title | Label | Remarks |
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1988 | The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra / Marc Blitzstein / Lukas Foss | Tobias Picker : Keys to the City / Piano Concerto | Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) | |
1993 | Russell Means | Electric warrior | Soar Corporation | |
1994 | Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol from Tapes | Book with CD with recordings of an opening event in the Warhol Museum | |
1996 | Paul Anka | Amigos | Sony Discos | |
1996 | The Silver Apples | Fractal Flow / Lovefingers | Enraptured | |
1996 | Paul Anka & Ricky Martin | Diana | CBS / Sony | |
1996 | Paul Anka & Anthea Anka u. a. | Yo Te Amo | CBS | The same cover artwork was used as with Diana . |
1998 | Esbjerg Ensemble | Karl-Aage Rasmussen : Three Friends - Works for Sinfonietta | Dacapo | |
2005 | VA | Andy Warhol by Cultura | EMI | Compilation with music a. a. by Radiohead , Portishead , Massive Attack , Patti Smith |
2008 | Christopher Galitas | The Mystery of Thu-Re-Wed |
literature
- Klaus Gier: Andy Warhol's Record and Cover Design: Studies on the graphic and formal design of records and record packaging by Andy Warhol using the example of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" and "Sticky Fingers" . Lang, 2001
- Martina Linnemann: Pop Art on record covers: Andy Warhol, Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton design record sleeves for Velvet Underground, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones . VDM Publishing, 2008
- Paul Maréchal: Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Record Covers, 1949-1987: Catalog Raisonné . Prestel, 2015
Web links / sources
- Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Album Covers
- Warhol covers
- Aidin Vaziri: Warhol's greatest album covers (2009)
- Andy Warhol Creates Album Covers for Jazz Legends Thelonious Monk, Count Basie & Kenny Burrell
- Fred Kaplan: The Pop of Warhol (Jazz and Rock, Too) (2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lee Zimmerman: Andy Warhol's Album Covers Collection Comes to Boca Raton in Palm Beach New Times
- ↑ 6 Andy Warhol album covers at Sotheby's
- ↑ Various - Andy Warhol's Jazz Album Covers Vol.1 at Discogs
- ^ Fred Kaplan: The Pop of Warhol (Jazz and Rock, Too) (2009) in The New York Times
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cover Versions: 25 of the best Andy Warhol record sleeves at The Vinyl factory
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Album Covers
- ^ Prokofiev - The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, The Westminster Choir, Dr. John Finley Williamson, Jennie Tourel - Alexander Nevsky - Cantata, Op. 78 at Discogs
- ↑ More pictures Margarita Madrigal, H. Andrés Morales - Madrigal's Magic Key To Spanish # 2 at Discogs
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Poul Webb: Andy Warhol Album Covers (2012)
- ↑ The Nation's Nightmare (Traffic In Narcotics / Crime On The Waterfront) at Discogs
- ↑ Morgan Brommell: 10 Album Covers Designed by Andy Warhol
- ^ The Record Covers, 1949-1987 in the Cranbrook Art Museum
- ↑ a b More Andy Warhol Cover Art
- ^ Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra - William Tell Overture at Discogs
- ^ Early Warhol Covers
- ↑ Joe Newman and Zoot Sims - Locking Horns at Discogs
- ↑ Kenny Burrell at Discogs
- ↑ Moondog - The Story of Moondog at Discogs
- ↑ Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Volume 1 at Discogs
- ↑ Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Vol. 2 at Discogs
- ↑ John Wallowitch - This Is John Wallowitch at Discogs
- ↑ Various - The East Village Other at Discogs
- ^ The Velvet Underground album cover
- ↑ The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock at Discogs
- ↑ John Cale - The Academy in Peril at Discogs
- ^ Paul Anka: The Painter at Discogs
- ↑ Walter Steding And The Dragon People - The Joke / Chase The Dragon at Discogs
- ↑ John Cale - Honi Soit at Discogs
- ↑ Billy Squier - Emotions in Motion at Discogs
- ↑ Diana Ross - Silk Electric at Discogs
- ↑ Loredana Berte - Made In Italy at Discogs
- ↑ Peer Raben - Querelle - A pact with the devil at Discogs
- ↑ Miguel Bosé - Made In Spain at Discogs
- ↑ The Smiths at Discogs
- ↑ The Falling Spikes - Screen Test: Falling In Love With The Falling Spikes at Discogs
- ^ John Lennon - Menlove Ave. at Discogs
- ↑ Lee Zimmerman: Andy Warhol's Album Covers Collection Comes to Boca Raton
- ↑ The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Tobias Picker, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss - Keys To The City / Piano Concerto at Discogs
- ↑ Russell Means - Electric Warrior at Discogs
- ↑ Paul Anka - Amigos at Discogs
- ↑ The Silver Apples - Fractal Flow / Lovefingers at Discogs
- ↑ Paul Anka & Ricky Martin - Diana at Discogs
- ↑ Paul Anka Con Anthea Anka, Barry Gibb y Kenny G (2) - Yo Te Amo at Discogs
- ↑ Various - Andy Warhol By Cultura at Discogs