List of record covers designed by Andy Warhol

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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
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
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lee Zimmerman: Andy Warhol's Album Covers Collection Comes to Boca Raton in Palm Beach New Times
  2. ↑ 6 Andy Warhol album covers at Sotheby's
  3. ↑ Various - Andy Warhol's Jazz Album Covers Vol.1 at Discogs
  4. ^ Fred Kaplan: The Pop of Warhol (Jazz and Rock, Too) (2009) in The New York Times
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Album Covers
  7. ^ Prokofiev - The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, The Westminster Choir, Dr. John Finley Williamson, Jennie Tourel - Alexander Nevsky - Cantata, Op. 78 at Discogs
  8. ↑ More pictures Margarita Madrigal, H. Andrés Morales - Madrigal's Magic Key To Spanish # 2 at Discogs
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Poul Webb: Andy Warhol Album Covers (2012)
  10. ↑ The Nation's Nightmare (Traffic In Narcotics / Crime On The Waterfront) at Discogs
  11. ↑ Morgan Brommell: 10 Album Covers Designed by Andy Warhol
  12. ^ The Record Covers, 1949-1987 in the Cranbrook Art Museum
  13. ↑ a b More Andy Warhol Cover Art
  14. ^ Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra - William Tell Overture at Discogs
  15. ^ Early Warhol Covers
  16. ↑ Joe Newman and Zoot Sims - Locking Horns at Discogs
  17. ↑ Kenny Burrell at Discogs
  18. ↑ Moondog - The Story of Moondog at Discogs
  19. ↑ Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Volume 1 at Discogs
  20. ↑ Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Vol. 2 at Discogs
  21. ↑ John Wallowitch - This Is John Wallowitch at Discogs
  22. ↑ Various - The East Village Other at Discogs
  23. ^ The Velvet Underground album cover
  24. ↑ The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock at Discogs
  25. ↑ John Cale - The Academy in Peril at Discogs
  26. ^ Paul Anka: The Painter at Discogs
  27. ↑ Walter Steding And The Dragon People - The Joke / Chase The Dragon at Discogs
  28. ↑ John Cale - Honi Soit at Discogs
  29. ↑ Billy Squier - Emotions in Motion at Discogs
  30. ↑ Diana Ross - Silk Electric at Discogs
  31. ↑ Loredana Berte - Made In Italy at Discogs
  32. ↑ Peer Raben - Querelle - A pact with the devil at Discogs
  33. ↑ Miguel Bosé - Made In Spain at Discogs
  34. ↑ The Smiths at Discogs
  35. ↑ The Falling Spikes - Screen Test: Falling In Love With The Falling Spikes at Discogs
  36. ^ John Lennon - Menlove Ave. at Discogs
  37. ↑ Lee Zimmerman: Andy Warhol's Album Covers Collection Comes to Boca Raton
  38. ↑ The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Tobias Picker, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss - Keys To The City / Piano Concerto at Discogs
  39. ↑ Russell Means - Electric Warrior at Discogs
  40. ↑ Paul Anka - Amigos at Discogs
  41. ↑ The Silver Apples - Fractal Flow / Lovefingers at Discogs
  42. ↑ Paul Anka & Ricky Martin - Diana at Discogs
  43. ↑ Paul Anka Con Anthea Anka, Barry Gibb y Kenny G (2) - Yo Te Amo at Discogs
  44. ↑ Various - Andy Warhol By Cultura at Discogs