"The Howdy Doody Show was ‘one of the most popular and influential children’s television series in American history. In its original run from 1947 to 1960, each episode opened with the voiceover question “Say, kids, what time is it?” Resounding from the peanut gallery—and from millions of television-watching kids around the country—came the reply, “It's Howdy Doody time!”’"
—National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Andy Warhol, Howdy Doody, 1981. Polacolor Type 108, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches. Collection of University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. Gift of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 
Andy Warhol, Howdy Doody, 1980. Dye diffusion transfer print, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches. Collection of Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Gift of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2008. © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Literature
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Artist Biography
Andy Warhol
American • 1928 - 1987
Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.
Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Howdy Doody, from Myths (F. & S. 263)
1981
Screenprint in colors with diamond dust, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet.
S. 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Signed and numbered 50/200 in pencil on the reverse (there were also 30 artist's proofs), published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York (with their and the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse), framed.
Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $47,880
212 940 1220
Editions Southampton
New York Auction 25 June 2022