Andy Warhol Album Covers - 5th April

Andy Warhol is more well known for his popart, but he has also designed album covers for many a different band and solo artist.

Some of the late artist's most popular work probably resides in peoples record collection. Warhol's imagesare on no less than 50 album covers, ranging from jazz and spoken-word titles to pop albums by the Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross, the Smiths and Aretha Franklin.

(1956) While Warhol's ink drawings started appearing on classical and world-music albums as early as 1949, it wasn't until he started getting commissioned jazz covers for Count Basie and Artie Shaw that his sly sensibility came to the surface. This one, for trumpet soloist Joe Newman, contains one of Warhol's earliest attempts at collage art, even if it was done simply to please the suits at RCA, who were used to seeing their musicians' pictures on album sleeves.



Source: http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-02-08/entertainment/17187065_1_andy-warhol-soup-cans-drawings